In the 1990s, they combined thin-film coating techniques with getter technology for the LHC and that paved the way for the solar panel applications we see today at the Geneva International Airport.

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Environmental awareness has pushed denim laundries to improve techniques for bleaching and coating jeans to give them different looks, Corrente said.

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