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Air-tight, High Specific-Strength Textiles

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Filter Material which Blocks Volatile Liquid, Passes Vapor

  • Unconquered
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How do solar cells generate current from pn-junctions?

  • blaisem
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What material is this? Plastic or hard rubber?

  • Andros123
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Need a small valve for gas injection? Any ideas?

  • eigenmax
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What composition of steel pipe should I use

  • Arjun Yadav
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Length of a 60/40 soldering lead that is 1lb and 0.8mm dia?

  • ryke
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Modeling a multiple inlet piping system

  • MexChemE
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"Regular" filtration with reverse osmosis filter?

  • Absentee
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Find a Strong and Non-Conductive Material for High Pressure Applications

  • tbader
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Why are ice chests not vacuum insulated?

  • Rich76
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Can I use thermal expansion to hold together materials?

  • Cbrown92
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Anisotropy of cold rolled aluminium

  • Sentrix
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How to Convert Heat Capacity Equation Units to British Engineering System?

  • Rizwan Yaseen
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Where to find friction coefficients for tungsten carbide and sapphire

  • Sturk200
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Anyone have any experience with Oxygen meters?

  • rwooduk
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Why the diamond-like-carbon coating works well with water?

  • Nahahahah
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Which is better for structural support PVC pipe or plywood?

  • AamsterC2
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USAF Academy develops new body armor material

  • aerohead_18
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Solving Heat Transfer Problem in Rectangular Vessel

  • davidgrant23
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Straightening 2024-T42 Aluminum

  • jallenc
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Inexpensive viscous liquid for damping brass RF connector parts in production

  • Enrique Morales
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Waterproof but transparent material

  • Trainee Engineering
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Chemist Needs Assistance with Flowmeters for Mixers

  • dtwright03
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Microwave transparent material for ESR/EPR spectrometer

  • C.Braestrup
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Practicality of High Energy/Zip Fuels?

  • Delta Force
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Pressure a sphere of polycarbonate can withstand underwater?

  • RICKYtan
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Making filaments from basalt rock

  • Bruce Teter
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Determining Young's Modulus of Aluminium from Tensile Test

  • storm
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3D Printing of Structural Colors

  • BillTre
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Shell balances in cylindrical coordinates

  • Muhammad Waleed Khan
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How do I make a stable water/oil micro-emulsion at home?

  • Tracy Hale
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Calculating gas pressure at a changing system

  • Povilas
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XRD peaks in 1.0 wt% graphene-epoxy after plasma functionalisation

  • willogrady
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What is a distinct phase change?

  • mech-eng
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Non-halogen fire retardant composite (Mgoh2 - Epoxy)

  • Faraj Sungkar
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How to Identify Fluorapatite in XRD Analysis?

  • pink diamond
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Understanding FTIR Peaks of PO4 Compounds

  • pink diamond
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Relation between Young's modulus and the coefficient of thermal expansion

  • engnr_arsalan
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Modeling a demethanizer tower in a cryogenic gas plant

  • zeronem
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Is There a Minimum Cooling Water Temperature for Specific Systems?

  • Usman Khan
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Create a Cheaper Water Filter: 25nm Cloth

  • Steven Ellet
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How to avoid boiling/bubbling effect under vacuum?

  • Dr SAYEED
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Ratio of specific heats of 52NiO-YSZ and YSZ

  • asseya
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Taking the temperature of a wire

  • guythreepwood
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Combustion Chemistry: Meaning of OH, H2O2 in Combustion

  • Auteng
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Heat capacity as a function of T under 298 K for metals

  • Carlos
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Any idea how to bake the column of a SEM?

  • Old_Bob
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Calculating enthalpy of CO2 at 200 psig and 80°F

  • dingweiyang
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Why are ceramic mugs preferred over glass mugs?

  • Blue Scallop
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Is an ESD floor mat the same as a foot rest?

  • Priss80
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Deflection of hose when internally pressurised

  • ronniejooney
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Phase Diagrams at Very Low Concentration of one Component

  • doollas
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Alloy of three metals with green, blue and red flame colors

  • nibbel11
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Understanding Crystalline Structures: A 3D Representation for Enhanced Learning

  • Corey Williams
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Silicone sealant for medical device

  • asherraph
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Torsional strength at high temperature

  • CFurner
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Material starting form for stub axle

  • Saints-94
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Ferrites and Size, synthesis methods

  • VASUbhagwat
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XRD Sample Prep: Pulverization w/o Affecting Crystallinity?

  • Baho Ilok
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Metal: no attraction to magnet and block magnetic fields?

  • tallatghazi
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Temperature Coefficient of Plain Carbon Steel Gr 1000 to 1095

  • anuraag
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How much load can 1/8" A36 steel carry?

  • ChewyFur
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Metallurgical questions about alloying of Sn with Cu/Ag/Au

  • Archie Medes
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Cocurrent diffusion with partial liquid recirculation

  • KarenRei
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Leaky Ballpoint Pens: Engineering Advancement

  • anorlunda
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CV redox peaks and Gamry Potentiometer

  • erbilsilik
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Boil by increasing temperature or reducing pressure?

  • goggles31
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Method Of Loading Carbon Molecular Sieve To Psa Tank

  • Herbid
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Calculate shear strength A36 plate

  • Hugh99
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Does strain rate ever decrease yield stress?

  • bryony88
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Enhanced Materials: Magnetic Enhancements

  • iG3
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Safety Essay on Fault Tree Analysis

  • Greenify
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Understanding the Hard Sphere Model of Crystallography

  • Poliona
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Do Different Peak Heights in XRD Analysis Indicate a Different Substance?

  • Baho Ilok
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What is a recycle loop system and how does it work?

  • rwooduk
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Material Science -- using materials without specifying crystal directions

  • Evilavatar2
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Dishwasher Safe Caulk: Is Food Grade Latex Caulk Available?

  • scott123
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Modeling Surface Reaction (CVD) on ANSYS Fluent

  • grapheeene
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Open source code that hysys was built on

  • rppearso
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Vanadium dioxide as a thermochromic conductor for electronics

  • wolram
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How quickly do ocean spray droplets dry into solid salt particles?

  • Peter Hessellund
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Gas evolution in low-pressure vacuum oil barometer

  • Plat
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Evaporating water using heat and reducing vapour pressure

  • jmarkwalker
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Looking for information on Celanese Fortiflex polymer

  • mesa
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Why when I freeze a container does the humidity go down?

  • Dave Krueger
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What is the energy cost of making silicon?

  • LordChallen
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Concentrating diesel fuel and or wood into liquid fuel?

  • Ibexe
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MIT Develops Compressed Graphene Sponge with Endless Uses

  • Kevin McHugh
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Visualizing Flow Using IR Transparent Fluids

  • Omenus
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Removing excess Fe and Mg from recycled aluminum alloys

  • ramzy
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Can We Create Coolness Without Heat Using Innovative Technologies?

  • NickPerry
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Bingham plastic that is not a suspension

  • Peter Hessellund
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Personnel Ground wrist strap Connection (non- monitored)

  • Priss80
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Cause of metal deterioration in heating element coil

  • Merlion
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Using a fountain pen for homemade conductive ink

  • Farhad-.-
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How do I calculate the yield pressure for a Bingham plastic in a tube?

  • Peter Hessellund
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