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Why Sputter instead of Electroplate?
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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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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 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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Confusion: outer tube heated vs. inner tube heated
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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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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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Convert Mass Flow Rate to Molar Flow Rate
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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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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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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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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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Diffusion coefficient of gases in liquids
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Material Characterization of Semiconductors
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Tongue weight capability of 2x3x.125 steel tube at 21"?
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Thermal insulating materials suitable for making piston and cylinder?
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How Is Steam Quantity Converted to Water Volume?
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Looking to learn how infrared absorbing (700-1000nm) pigment is made
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Theoretical reaction rate for water electrolysis
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Departure enthelpy for mixture EOS = enthelpy of mixing?
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Which one is more work-hardened than the other?
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Is electrolyte chemical consumed during alkaline water electrolysis?
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Generating EUV Light Without High Costs
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How Does Vacuum Affect Solid Carryover in a Reactor Vent and Scrubber System?
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Thermodynamics of chemical reactions
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What kind of plastic is best for this loudspeaker enclosure?
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PEM, ANION and MEA membranes for an electrolyzer
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Vapor - Liquid Equilibrium Equation (VLE)
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Used/old transmission fluid should be useful for something else?
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Does Resistance change wrt temperature include effect of size change
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How to make hard metal toolkit handle from Polyethylene tube
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Battery - theoretical specific energy
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What are some possible future applications for supersolids?
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Technical or cosmetic studies of foam such as used in skin-care
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Synthetic resins vs. natural amber
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Mass and Volumetric Flow rate of Natural Gas
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My Mylar notification for you and a question
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Can you make a battery out of light slowing materials?
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Effective way of slurry sampling
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Can you make Eva Foam without using Formamide?
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Titanium Oxide? and how to melt it
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Supercritical CO2 erosion protection
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Bladder material for containing ammonia
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Ball-and-Stick Quasicrystal Model
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Investigating the Sound Reflector of a Gas Inlet Tube
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Will painting a tube black cool it down?
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Question about Refrigerants used within a Heat Pump
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Is ABS or Stainless steel more inert? (moved to Engineering)
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Opaque Materials & UV Resistance: Advice for Buying Curtains
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Why Does Electrical Work Cause Changes in the Internal Energy of a System?
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Enthelpy of Reaction and Efficiency of Galvanic Cells
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Maximum non - PV Work at Constant Temperature and Pressure and Reversi
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Entropy Changes in Electrolytic/Galvanic Cell?
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