News tagged with dynamite explosions
Study: Elephants unfazed by dynamite, but fear humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Elephants are not bothered by dynamite explosions, but nearby human activity prompts them to dramatically change their behavior, reports a Cornell study that used automated listening devices ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Microreactors to produce explosive materials
The larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made – or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they can be used to produce explosive materials ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Mobile mayhem: Researchers harness Kraken to model explosions via transport
First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country's interstate and highway system. That's right, volatile explosives, including ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Weekend Orionid meteor shower
Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect more than 15 meteors per hour to fly across the sky on Saturday morning, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Biodiversity must be restored
The global extinction of species is rapidly accelerating. We still have a chance to stop it – at least in Germany. But time is of the essence. A simple strategy based on the biotope network model at Lake ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Peru town copes with being devoured by mine
(AP) -- The mile-wide gash grows almost daily with each dynamite blast, slowly devouring this bleak provincial capital high in the Andes.
Apr 18, 2010 |
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Waking up memories while you sleep
They were in a deep sleep, yet sounds, such as a teakettle whistle and a cat's meow, somehow penetrated their slumber. The 25 sounds presented during the nap were reminders of earlier spatial learning, though the Northwestern ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Beneath the surface
It was the geological collision between India and Asia millions of years ago that created one of the world's most distinctive places: The area around Lake Baikal in Siberia, which contains 20 per cent of the world's fresh ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2009 |
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A new explosive: Melt-castable nitrate ester with high explosive energy
Since the discovery of nitroglycerin in 1846, the nitrate ester group of compounds has been known for its explosive properties. A whole series of other nitrate esters have been subsequently put to use as explosives ...
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Argonne supercomputer to simulate extreme physics of exploding stars
Robert Fisher and Cal Jordan are among a team of scientists who will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that ...
May 01, 2008 |
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300 years after discovery, structure of mercury fulminate finally determined
Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite—mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German researchers have been able to ...
Aug 24, 2007 |
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