News tagged with liquid substance

Environmentally friendly rockets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many rockets, satellites, and spacecraft are driven by hydrazine, sometimes with an oxidizing agent like nitric acid or dinitrogen tetroxide. When filling tanks with these highly toxic substances, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists demonstrate effect of confining dielectrics on semiconductor nanowire conductivity

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Good liquid, bad liquid (Video)

For airline passengers everywhere, good news. Scientists have successfully tested a liquid explosive detection system that may eventually keep dangerous substances off airplanes. This comes barely two years ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Research Exposes the Risk to Infants from the Chemicals Used in Liquid Medicines

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of medical scientists from the University of Leicester has published research which looks into the harmful substances in liquid medicines that premature babies are being exposed to.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1