News tagged with lime scale deposits
A crystal clear view of chalk formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Calcifying microalgae are witnesses of increasing ocean acidification
For the first time researchers have examined on a global scale how calcified algae in their natural habitat react to increasing acidification due to higher marine uptake of carbon dioxide. In the current issue ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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A crystal clear view of chalk formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Flexible charge pump: New small-scale generator produces alternating current by stretching zinc oxide wires
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of small-scale electric power generator able to produce alternating current through the cyclical stretching and releasing of zinc oxide wires encapsulated ...
Nov 09, 2008 |
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Mimicking gecko feet: Dry adhesive based on carbon nanotubes gets stronger
The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.
Oct 09, 2008 |
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New European loess map
A new map showing the distribution of loess sediments in Europe has been published for the first time in 75 years, in digital format. With this map, Dagmar Haase, a geographer at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ...
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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World's first tool for low-temperature carbon nanotube growth starts trials
CEVP has developed a fabrication tool to commercialise the revolutionary low temperature carbon nanotube growth process developed by the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). The new ...
Nov 29, 2005 |
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