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Fake Gold Bars with Tungsten Cores in Fort Knox? National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Electronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips. DiscoveryElectronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips Rice University graduate student Jun Yao's research with silicon-oxide circuits could be a game-changer in nanoelectronics October 8, 2010 Tenacity, audacity, intuition, patience, a lot of talent and a little luck are healthy qualities for a young scientist. Jun Yao has them all. The fifth-year graduate student at Rice University believed so strongly in his discovery two years ago that he went to the mat for it.

What Yao found could be a game-changer in the budding field of nanoelectronics. While working on a project to create memory devices based on graphite, he discovered that he could form nanocrystalline pathways in silicon oxide, an insulator that was underlying the graphite, simply by applying voltage. It was the payoff for two years spent struggling to explain to a host of skeptics, including his lab partners, that the silicon oxide itself was all one needed to build next-generation computer memory. "I came across Dr. 7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics | Cracke. The universe is full of weird substances like liquid metal and whatever preservative keeps Larry King alive. But mankind isn't happy to accept the weirdness of nature when we can create our own abominations of science that, due to the miracle of technology, spit in nature's face and call it retarded.

That's why we came up with... #7. Ferrofluids What do you get when you suspend nanoparticles of iron compounds in a colloidal solution of water, oil and a surfactant? Did you guess Zima? The real answer is ferrofluids, though you should be proud if you just knew what "surfactant" was. A ferrofluid is a liquid that reacts to magnetic fields in trippy ways that make you think that science is both magical and potentially evil. Tell us that didn't look like the birth of the most sinister dildo ever. What happens is that when a magnetic field is applied to the fluid, the particles of iron compound inside align to it. What the Hell is it Used For? #6. Every once in a while, science rules. #5. Turn on, tune in, power up.

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•• How to? • Density Density of different solid materials, liquids and gases. . • Boiling point Documents giving boiling point of elements and different kind of chemical species at varying conditions • Melting point - freezing point Documents giving melting or freezing point of elements and different kind of chemical species at varying conditions • Viscosity Documents giving viscosity of different kind of chemical species at varying conditions Absolute, Dynamic and Kinematic Viscosity Dynamic, absolute and kinematic viscosities - convert between CentiStokes (cSt), centipoises (cP), Saybolt Universal Seconds (SSU) and degree Engler Acetylene Chemical, Physical and Thermal Properties of Acetylene Acid and base pH indicators Acids - pH Values Air - Absolute and Kinematic Viscosity.