News tagged with gas mixture


Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment—that safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks—will become standard in the United States in the next few years, predict researchers ...


Helium helps lung patients breathe easier

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research published in the international journal Chest, by Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed a mix of 60% helium and 40% oxygen during a rehabilitation progra ...





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Scientists cool gas by laser bombardment

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Three decades ago, American and Finnish scientists came up with a very powerful method for cooling gases by "laser bombardment." Only now were physicists at the University of Bonn able to demonstrate that it actually works. ...


New material could make gases more transportable

Chemistry /

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable.


   How to Rip a Fluid

How to Rip a Fluid

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 01, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In a simple experiment on a mixture of water, surfactant (soap), and an organic salt, two researchers working in the Pritchard Laboratories at Penn State have shown that a rigid object like a knife passes ...


Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 1

With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles – bubbles that endure for more than ...


Researchers Discover Use for Carbon Dioxide in Conversion of Biomass Into Biofuel

Researchers Discover Use for Carbon Dioxide in Conversion of Biomass Into Biofuel

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia University have successfully discovered a beneficial use for carbon dioxide in the conversion of organic materials, such as grass and bark, into fuel. Their findings ...


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Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

Physics / General Physics

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (286) | comments 50

To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...


Icy exposure creates armored polymer high tech foams

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists and engineers at the University of Warwick have found that exposing particular mixtures of polymer particles and other materials to sudden freeze-drying can create a high-tech armored foam that could ...


Munich lab demonstrates diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

German researchers demonstrate diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions went into force for all new car models, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have demonstrated an engine that is ...


Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method

Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method

Chemistry /

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen ...


Grilling with charcoal less climate-friendly than grilling with propane

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a paper published in Elsevier’s Environmental Impact Assessment Review. The article, “Charcoal versus LPG grilling: ...



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