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Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...
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Rocky water source
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Gypsum, a rocky mineral is abundant in desert regions where fresh water is usually in very short supply but oil and gas fields are common. Writing in International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Peter van der Ga ...
Antibacterial plaster could put a clean sheen on walls
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists in China are reporting development and testing of new self-sanitizing plaster with more powerful antibacterial effects than penicillin. The material could be used in wall coatings, paints, art works and other products. ...
'Self-healing' house in Greece will dare to defy nature
Apr 02, 2007 |
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A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside.
Archaeologist uncover possible medieval mosque in Sicily
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 30, 2007 |
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Earlier this summer, while standing in an archaeological pit adjacent to an ancient hilltop castle in west-central Sicily, Northern Illinois University graduate student Bill Balco could literally reach out ...
Researcher Identifies Tracks Of Swimming Dinosaur In Wyoming
Oct 17, 2005 |
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The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder ...
Unusual microbial ropes grow slowly in cave lake
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Dec 20, 2008 |
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Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive
Dec 22, 2006 |
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While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 14 to watch the ...
'Mercury sponge' technology goes from lab to market
May 23, 2006 |
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A material designed to capture and remove mercury and other toxic substances from industrial waste streams is now available for commercial use.
Mineral Mapper Uncovering Clues of Martian Surface Composition
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2007 |
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Reaching its first 100 days of operations, the powerful mineral-detector aboard the newest satellite to circle Mars is changing the way scientists view the history of water on the red planet.
A young Mars most likely to support life, new mineral history shows
Apr 20, 2006 |
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Mars started out relatively wet and temperate, underwent a major climate shift, and evolved into a cold, dry place strewn with acidic rock – less than ideal conditions for supporting life.
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