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Stored Lithium-ion batteries self exterminate after 2-3 years?
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Area Under a Load Vs Deflection Curve
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Hard chrome electroplating titanium
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Molecular Diffusion of A through Non-diffusing B
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What Are the Negative Effects of Hysteresis in Metals and Electrical Systems?
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Optical Coatings for Metal Mirrors in Optical Applications
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Chemically resistant sealing options
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Chemical Vapor Deposition - Diamond
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Reading a Binary Phase Diagram (lever rule etc.)
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Tensile yield strength of fiber reinforced plastic
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Tire rubber durometer rating -- stability
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Difference between brittle fracture and fatigue crack growth
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Why is solar radiation equal to long wavelength emission?
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Interesting topics of material fracture/deformation?
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Motherboard sudden death in 1-week old phones?
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Force between two different metals?
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Hot dipped galvanized steel with copper based grease -- corroision question
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Best anode materials for water-based hydrogen generator?
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Possible Causes for Hole in Radiator Tank
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Transmission electron microscopy -- signal type and importance
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About the efficiency of engines
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Aquarium fish tank: Glass material alternatives
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E-PVD Vacuum chamber cleaning maintenance and Care
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Need a material that can hold Helium....
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Measuring Torque on the Impeller Shaft of a Stirred Tank
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Industrial production of a drug host
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Making perovskite solar cell crystals w/o heating
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Re: The electrical excitation of quantum dots
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Understanding the Concept of Heat Supply to a System: Explained in My Book
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Is there a way to increase the efficiency of spdc?
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Understanding Reactor Balancing: Flow Rate and Volume Relationship
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Mass and energy balance equations for a tank filled with H20
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Volume translated Peng-Robinson equation of state
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Could Isoprene Be the Perfect Replacement for Harmful Refrigerants?
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Help understanding an experiment set up
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Designing Car Floatation Devices: What Alternatives to Sodium Azide?
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Why won't my silicon melt with a zvs inductive heater?
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What could be causing this microstructural difference?
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Transport Phenomenon: Drag Coefficient & Friction Factor
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What are the predefined conditions for defining functions in circles?
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Separating hydrogen from effluent HHO by gravity.
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How long will it take for a gas cylinder to empty?
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Diffusivity coefficients in multicomponent systems
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Degradation of crystalline silicon solar cells
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Discontinuous yielding in a low alloy steel
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How to Implement Piecewise Time-Varying Electrode Surface Potential in Comsol?
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Heterogeneities of the material properties
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Plastics not subject to viscoelasticity (cold flow)
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How Natural Rubber (NR) reacts with sulfur?
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How to convert XRD results in .txt format to .dat or others?
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Flow rate calculation of hydrogen gas in case of leak
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Determine acclimation time for metals
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Does CMF bulletproof body armor have any negative consequences for the wearer?
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Finding Material for Rib Pad: Tough, Waterproof, Salt-Resistant
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What is the best material to use to cut galvanized sheet metal?
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Different metals and their compounds' reaction to Microwaves
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Charcoal/carbon activated filters
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Polymer nanocomposite -- Which is the most emerging application field?
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What materials stay unblemished after 1000s of centuries?
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Ways of joining two different polymers
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How Does Velocity Affect Viscosity in Material Flow?
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Effects of Temperature on Flow Rate
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Cubic equation of state near critical point (~0.95 < Tr < 1)
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What is the significance of rare earth elements in modern technology?
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Different metal types and corrosion
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Why is my material testing machine throwing out errors at speeds over 250mm/min?
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Regarding Home Lab made to study crystallography
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Materials for space applications?
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Pressure drop along a pipe with a branch
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How do I dispose of used Ferric Chloride etchant?
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Best material for a shock resistant phone case
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Can slow cooling achieve fully annealed grade 2 Ti foils?
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What if Luders Bands do NOT show up as expected?
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The cost of a carbon fiber car chassis
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How to find the heat of vaporization of ABS?
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E-beam Physical Vapour deposition
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Is it possible to pour concrete in a vacuum?
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Vespel SP-1 material degradation in space applications
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Propagation length of the surface plasma wave (SPW)
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Wall thickness vs frequency.... sound isolation
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Metal thin film adhesion, Au-Si deposition
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Cooling for Underwater Monitor Housing
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Uncovering the Mystery of WGL's Cantaba Alloy
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Rotating magnetic field effect on aqueous mixing (opinions?)
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Perlite as an absorbing/adsorbing material
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Calculating Heat Exchange Surface for Fluid Flow
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Volumetric flow rate in a PFR reactor
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What is the difference between PP(polypropylene) and CPP?
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Need to understand & manipulate EPS foam extrusion & production
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Molar volume and surface tension of nanoparticle
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How Can I Achieve an Aged Copper Look Without Chemicals?
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How can I cool down and heat up any liquid with the same element.
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Microbiological Fuel Cell: Negative Voltage
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