News tagged with acetylene gas
Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO2 with a fluorescent twist
Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, large size, slow detection speed, ...
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Scientists invent first technique for producing promising anti-leukemia agent
Kapakahines, marine-derived natural products isolated from a South Pacific sponge in trace quantities, have shown anti-leukemia potential, but studies have been all but stalled by kapakahines' lack of availability.
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Researchers discover novel chemical route to form organic molecules
An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Professor Ralf I. Kaiser, Alexander M. Mebel of Florida International University, and Alexander Tielens of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Twist-and-glow molecules aid rapid gas detection
In an emergency such as a factory fire, ascertaining which gases are present in the air is critical to preventing or minimizing poisoning (Fig. 1). This requires gas sensors that react quickly and provide ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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The methane habitable zone
In the search for life elsewhere, many studies focus on finding liquid water. But what if life could exist with some other solvent? Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan makes scientists question the possibilities ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Ions control shape of nanofibers grown on clear substrate
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a new way to develop straight carbon nanofibers on a transparent substrate. Growing such nanofiber coatings is important for use in novel biomedical ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Skydiving on Saturn
Daredevils regularly bail out at high altitude to skydive through Earth’s atmosphere but what would it be like to skydive on Saturn?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 20, 2011 |
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Cassini celebrates 10 years since Jupiter encounter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet ...
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Dec 30, 2010 |
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Graphene: Singles and the few
(PhysOrg.com) -- A timely review analyzing the correlation of synthesis methods and physical properties of single-layer and few-layered graphene flakes.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 08, 2010 |
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What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 03, 2010 |
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K-State researchers patent a new multipurpose gel material with wide commercial applications
A team of Kansas State University researchers has patented a new, more cost effective way to make a gel that can be used in fuel cells, water filtration systems, or perhaps as a net to capture fine cometary dust.
May 25, 2010 |
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Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets ...
Apr 07, 2009 |
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