News tagged with glass thermometers
Glass Thermometers Still a Safety Hazard
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers. A 12year review of patients seen in Children's emergency department ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Archaeological dig uncovers artifacts
Scientific equipment belonging to an Enlightenment figure has been found in an archaeological dig at the University.
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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The Marangoni effect: A fluid phenom (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- What do a wine glass on Earth and an International Space Station experiment have in common? Well, observing the wine glass would be one of few ways to see and understand the experiment being ...
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Mercury thermometers face final phase out
The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. The reason: Mercury released into the environment from a broken thermometer ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Research uses quantum mechanics to melt glass at absolute zero
Quantum mechanics, developed in the 1920s, has had an enormous impact in explaining how matter works. The elementary particles that make up different forms of matter -- such as electrons, protons, neutrons and photons -- ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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End of an era: NIST to cease calibrating mercury thermometers
Beginning March 1, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will no longer provide calibration services for mercury thermometers. The cessation of the mercury thermometer calibration program ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Top gadgets at consumer electronics trade show
Tablets may have been all the rage at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but with tens of thousands of products on display, there was something for everyone.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 11, 2011 |
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The boundless promise -- and mystery -- of glass
For more than 40 years, Rensselaer Professor Minoru Tomozawa has been pioneering new innovations in a field that most people take for granted: glass.
Aug 02, 2010 |
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New ionic liquid in thermometers beats mercury on range, performance and safety
Poisonous mercury in thermometers has been replaced by harmless and better performing ionic liquids in research by scientists from Europe and the US, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Green Chemistry.
Mar 26, 2008 |
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HIV in breastmilk killed by flash-heating, new study finds
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University ...
May 22, 2007 |
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Ancient and Modern Evidence Suggests Limits to Future Global Warming
Duke-led research team ran some 1,000 computer simulations, covering 1,000 years, to get a longer-range assessment of the highest likely readings.
Apr 20, 2006 |
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