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Ice slurry technology can save heart attack victims, surgery patients
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When treating cardiac arrest victims, doctors can't call a time-out. Without the ability to obtain fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. ...
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Mathematical model improves reactor efficiency
Jun 12, 2007 |
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During his PhD project at Eindhoven University of Technology, Dutch researcher Vinit Chilekar developed a mathematical model for the design of a so-called slurry bubble column. That is a reactor for large-scale chemical processes, ...
The perfect cut
Aug 07, 2009 |
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You need the right tool to slice silicon blocks into paper-thin wafers: a several-kilometer-long wire wetted with a type of grinding paste. And all the parameters must be optimally adjusted -- only then can ...
New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new breed of rechargeable zinc-air batteries is soon to be available, and may replace lithium-ion batteries in cell phones, laptops and other consumer items. Lithium-ion batteries store ...
Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - ...
Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
Jul 24, 2009 |
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The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Mechanoluminescence event yields novel emissions, reactions
May 08, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois report that a new study of mechanoluminescence revealed extensive atomic and molecular spectral emission not previously seen in a mechanoluminescence event. The findings, which appear ...
New coating protects steel and superalloys
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new ceramic-based coating for steel and superalloys that prevents corrosion, oxidation, carburization and sulfidation that commonly occur ...
Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Mount Redoubt volcano had another large eruption Saturday after being relatively quiet for nearly a week.
Geologists solve ancient mystery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Geologists at the University of Leicester have solved a puzzle found in rocks half a billion years old.
Improving swine waste fertilizer
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Swine production generates large amounts of waste. While this waste contains nutrients that may serve as fertilizer when applied to agricultural fields, the ratio of nutrients in the waste is different than what a crop requires.
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