News tagged with silica gel
dAlH2Orean: An RC car that runs on aluminum soda can tabs (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aleix Lovet and Xavier Saluena, two researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of Catalonia, have made the world first RC car that runs entirely on soda cans. Well, to be more accurate, it runs ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Colorful Warning: Selective, sensitive CO detection with a rhodium complex
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon monoxide is an insidious poison: it is colorless, odorless, and toxic at low concentrations. It is usually produced by combustion engines or incomplete combustion in gas furnaces or ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 06, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
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A Good Eye for Oxygen
(PhysOrg.com) -- We cannot live without it; yet too much of it causes damage: oxygen is a critical component of many physiological and pathological processes in living cells. Oxygen deficiency in tissues is thus related to ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 27, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
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Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them
Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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How to count nanoparticles
Nanoparticles of a substance can be counted and the size distribution can be determined by dispersing the nanoparticles into a gas. But some nanoparticles tend to aggregate when the surrounding conditions change. Scientists ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 11, 2011 |
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