As picturesque as winter weather can be, snowy scenes often present a less desirable, slippery companion: ice. It coats our roadways, clings to windshields and serves as a general hurdle in daily life during the coldest months ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 24, 2023
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Researchers from Skoltech and Tomsk Polytechnic University have tuned the synthesis of a five-element carbide—a strong, hard-melting compound of carbon and five transition metals—which holds much promise for industrial ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 26, 2023
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Lei Guo and others from Tianjin University in China discovered that the environmental sediments on the surface of aero engine turbine blades have a significant concentration of Fe, surpassing even the levels of Mg, Al, and ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 8, 2024
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Prof. Ren Baohua and his team from the School of Earth and Space Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), uncovered the connection between Arctic daily warming ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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Oxide removal for welding can be laborious and costly, yet results from a new study indicate the preparation may be unnecessary for certain solid-state joining.
Materials Science
Feb 3, 2017
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Our understanding of habitability relies entirely on the availability of liquid water. All life on Earth needs it, and there's every indication that life elsewhere needs it, too.
Astrobiology
Dec 15, 2022
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The discovery of hydrous ringwoodite inclusion in diamonds with 1.5 wt.% H2O provided an irrefutable indication that water is present in the Earth's deep mantle. Whether this water was delivered by one of the numerous subducted ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2022
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At temperatures as hot as the sun and under pressures over a million times atmospheric pressure, the metal molybdenum melts. Tracking the molten history of the metal clarified the melting point, the border between solid and ...
Materials Science
Dec 13, 2017
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Hf-based carbides are highly desirable candidates for thermal protection applications above 2,000°C due to their extremely high melting point and favorable mechanical properties. However, as a crucial indicator for composition ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 30, 2024
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