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 ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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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 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

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.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 0

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 ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...

Nanotechnology /

created Nov 29, 2005 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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