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What Does a Broad Peak at 2θ = 20.92° Indicate in Polymer XRD Analysis?
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Tabulation of physical and chemical data
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Help finding the right material for non-conductive tubing
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I irrationally dislike composites (Rant)
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Searching for fully sintered boron nitride ceramic
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Search for specific near infrared transparent materials
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Alternative material to the springs used in furniture
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Modelling of two phase flow in packed bed (continued)
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OPCW announces all declared chemical weapons are destroyed
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Advertised as "gold leaf" - but what material is it really?
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Need a surface mount seal for chemical cabinet door
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Minimizing Raw Material Losses at Float Glass Manufacturing Facility
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Making light of CsPbBr3 - precisely enough to be "unsplit"
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Deformation twin - Twin Variants
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How do Photochromic lenses work?
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What properties can metamaterials have?
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Designing best theoretical sax/clarinet mouthpiece ligand
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Why are the wicks in 'gift' candles so bad?
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Need help on how to find the Equivalence Ratio of combustion for plastic waste
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Is Thermal Expansion Fatigue a Concern for Aluminum Alloy Motorcycle Frames?
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Enclosure Panel Material and Heat Transfer
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Rate of cooling of aluminum parts after a glycol heat process
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Bursting strength and compressive strength of cardboard tubes
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Calculating theoretical thickness while anodising aluminium oxide
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Stainless steel as ferromagnetic or non/paramagnetic
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Low Heat/Thermal Conductivity Electric Conductive Materials
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Need help making a high temp pigment
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Understanding Aluminum Alloy Aging at High Stress and Elevated Temperatures
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Why Sputter instead of Electroplate?
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Hydrocyclones- Calculation steps and separation results
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Time to evaporate LN2 from a container
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Determining the Yield strength and Ultimate tensile strength of HDPE
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DLVO Theory of Colloid Stability
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I have a problem finding a steam table for n-pentane
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On aluminium as vise / clamp material
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Difference between Granite in different grades
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Calculating Modulus of Resilience: Yield Stress, Yield Strain, E
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My balloon technology (the LDH honeycomb)
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Ideas on How This Exhibit was Designed?
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Finding the Equivalence Ratio of Combustion (Methane + Air)
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Struggling to understand stretch and strength in fishing line
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How Would a Carrington Event Affect Solar Panels?
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Effects of extreme pressure on materials
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SYLTHERM XLT heat transfer fluid
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Oobleck & Dilatants: Physics, Equations & Math for Sci-Math Exposition
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Fluid dynamics of a cocktail shaker
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Thin-walled sphere and fluid mechanics question
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Searching for compressive stress of silica aerogels
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Thermal expansion of air bubbles in plastic
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High Temperature and Very High Temperature Materials
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Can you DIY thermoform Viton sheets?
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Can I move a macro object at a very small distance (around 10 nm)?
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Getting an exact amount of Methane out of a cylinder
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Can I get any macro object of very small thickness such as 10 nm?
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Rigid binding material that can dissolve?
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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries? Maybe
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What is high breakthrough field?
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Perovskite semiconductors for solar photovoltaic cells
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Graphene/GO-based elastic material
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Questions about energy generation from coal
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Confusion: outer tube heated vs. inner tube heated
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Looking for waterproof alternatives to OSB for subfloors
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Searching for Low Impact Fluid with Boiling Point of 150-180 F
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How long before this type of metal roof will melt in a house fire?
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Attempting to better understand Hexavalent Chromium genesis
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What Grade of Brass or Cast Iron is Used for Worm Wheels?
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How can you make Ohmic contact with NiSi in semiconductors?
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Help with depositing a Nano coating on a glass-like substrate please
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Question about these thermal expansion coefficient units (m/mK)
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How stable are coatings put on by Sputtering?
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How to describe and discuss different solid matter states?
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Can coatings prevent sublimation?
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Directing magnetic field lines by using diamagnetic material
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Derivation of McCabe - Thiele Method
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Extraction Flash Calculation - 4 Component and 2 Phase System
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Thermodynamics Question About Steam
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Why and How Ethanol + Water + Raw Material contain Essential Oil
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Can a Candle Flame be Improved for Better Efficiency?
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Methanol - H fuel cells for marine transport
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Convert Mass Flow Rate to Molar Flow Rate
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Finding specific heat C_p coefficients using NIST
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What is the Source of Strange Sewer-Like Fumes Causing Reactions?
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What does "Low strength but good strength-to-weight ratio" mean?
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Quick question about Aluminum Nitride's conductivity
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Can Green Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?
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Producing Renewable Liquid Fuels from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
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Difficulty with machining bismuth, any suggestions/tips/other ideas?
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Help solving a UHV problem (anodized aluminum)
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Difference between the inelasticity and plasticity of metals
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Effects of Collision on Car Body/Frame
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Heating a steel spring then quenching in water
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Keeping food hot in food delivery bag
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Relation between enthelpy of sublimation and rate of sublimation?
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Trying to source a chemical product
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Cylindrical Permeability Problem: Help on how to set up
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Elasticity of a Tubular Cantilever Beam
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Points of contact and contaminations
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Does silicone as hard as plastic exist?
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Thermal Printing and Ink fading
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How are New Catalysts Discovered?
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