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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces |
| Date | 2015-10-31 03:40 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate > single-crystal ice surfaces >> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-year-old-mystery-chemist-isolate-single-crystal.html > >> A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific >> surfaces of single-crystal ice for study, a long-sought breakthrough >> that could help researchers answer essential questions about climate >> and the environment. The discovery is detailed in the Proceedings of >> the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, publishing the >> week of October 26 in advance of print. >> >> "Ice crystals are ubiquitous and could hold the answer to some very >> important, fundamental questions about our environment, but until now >> we haven't had the tools to reliably reproduce ice crystal faces in a >> lab for study," said Mary Jane Shultz, Ph.D., professor of chemistry >> in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. "This new >> process will open the door to areas of research that have been closed >> to us previously." >> >> The discovery could, for example, enable researchers to better >> understand how vapor interacts with ice crystals in a cloud to >> produce rain, which pollutants attach themselves to ice crystals and >> why no two snowflakes are alike, said Shultz, principal investigator >> of the Laboratory for Water and Surface Analysis. Those answers could >> have implications for important issues such as seeding rain clouds >> and protecting the environment. >> >> Scientists have been pursuing a reliable way to prepare ice crystal >> surfaces in the laboratory since at least the 1930s, according to >> Shultz, and she began trying more than 15 years ago. "I thought I'd >> grow a piece of ice and be done, but it's a very unusual material and >> challenging to work with. Previous methods of growing and preparing >> crystals were not reliable and yielded results that were not >> reproducible." How many people do you think are going to discuss this cut and paste, spamming shit head? -- Jim Pennino
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Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 21:10 -0500
Re: Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-31 03:40 +0000
Re: Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces xxein1@att.net - 2015-10-30 21:47 -0700
Re: Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 08:32 -0500
Re: Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 12:57 -0700
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