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Levitation and its applications
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:46 pm
by [Syl]
Scientists Levitate Small Animals
Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds that are, well, uplifting.
In the past, researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, used ultrasound fields to successfully levitate globs of the heaviest solid and liquid—iridium and mercury, respectively. The aim of their work is to learn how to manufacture everything from pharmaceuticals to alloys without the aid of containers. At times compounds are too corrosive for containers to hold, or they react with containers in other undesirable ways.
Re: Levitation and its applications
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:11 am
by Loredoctor
Syl wrote:Scientists Levitate Small Animals
Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds that are, well, uplifting.
In the past, researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, used ultrasound fields to successfully levitate globs of the heaviest solid and liquid—iridium and mercury, respectively. The aim of their work is to learn how to manufacture everything from pharmaceuticals to alloys without the aid of containers. At times compounds are too corrosive for containers to hold, or they react with containers in other undesirable ways.
I can imagine some people getting upset China managed this, as opposed to the US or Uk. After all, China's bad.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:13 am
by The Laughing Man
well, they did it with our money anyway....and they levitated all our jobs away too years ago......
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:27 am
by Loredoctor
Esmer wrote:well, they did it with our money anyway....and they levitated all our jobs away too years ago......