Cryogenic cutting: liquid nitrogen jet slices and scours almost anything
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A new industrial cutting device called the Ginsu knife uses a supersonic stream of high-pressure liquid nitrogen, which can slice through anything. This Nitro jet technology does not create any secondary waste and is employed by NASA technicians, US Navy and many aerospace firms.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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Doping by design: why new steroids are easy to make and hard to detect
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A network of clandestine laboratories is speculated to exist that develop and produce illegal steroids. Organic chemists design anabolic steroids fairly easily that standard drug tests find it hard to detect.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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Liquid zoom: adaptive lenses change magnification without moving
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The article describes an adaptive lens, a zoom lens, which changes focal length without changing the lenses positions.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2007
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