News tagged with thermocouple
Researchers take molecule's temperature
You can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it's hot. Ouch! But you can't touch a single molecule and get the same feedback.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Ready-to-Eat: Imaging System Monitors Oven Loading in Fully Cooked Meat Operations to Ensure Quality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fully cooked, ready-to-eat products continue to increase in popularity among consumers because of their convenience. However, cooking these products requires careful control to ensure that ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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MEMS device generates power from body heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an attempt to develop a power source that is compact, environmentally friendly, and has an unlimited lifetime, a team of researchers from Singapore has fabricated an energy harvesting device ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points
When used at high temperatures (above 1100 °C) thermocouples are prone to substantial calibration drift. To gauge the extent of the drift, for example, in an industrial setting, it is highly desirable for ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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New vacuum calibration system: Better, faster, and cheaper
In the vacuum business, less is more—except when it comes to accuracy. Industries that depend on high-quality, carefully monitored vacuum for sensitive processes such as microchip fabrication, as well ...
May 09, 2012 |
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Research team appears to solve the Pioneer anomaly
(Phys.org) -- Back in the early 70’s NASA launched two exploratory spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11. Their missions were to gather information about the solar system as they made their way through it by ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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A dash of physics thrown into the cocktail mix
Ever wondered how your martini maintains its crisp and balanced taste, or why a manhattan remains clear if stirred but turns cloudy when shaken?
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Cyborg insects generate power for their own neural control
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years, researchers have been working on designing and fabricating micro-air-vehicles (MAVs), flying robots the size of small insects. But after realizing how difficult it is to create ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Experiments settle long-standing debate about mysterious array formations in nanofilms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have conducted experiments confirming which of three possible mechanisms is responsible for the spontaneous formation of three-dimensional ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Superconductors face the future
Futuristic ideas for the use of superconductors, materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, are myriad: long-distance, low-voltage electric grids with no transmission loss; fast, magnetically ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold
Cryotherapy, an interventional radiology treatment to freeze cancer tumors, may become the treatment of the future for cancer that has metastasized in soft tissues (such as ovarian cancer) and in bone tumors. Such patients ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Install and Forget: Batteryless Radio Sensors
Siemens has developed a variety of energy autarkic radio sensors that draw the energy they require for operation from their surroundings. The technology can be used to automatically monitor facilities in remote ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 13, 2009 |
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