European customers want to replace tetrabrom with nonhalogenated, or more ozone-layer-friendly, flame retardants.
Dubbed Mount Sharp, it appears to be an unusual layer-cake of clay and other sedimentary deposits that may be relics of ancient water flows and organic chemistry.
The reason is that if this analysis is internally consistent then we ought to be able to add layer-by-layer on to it until we get to the complete analysis.
Its prime target is the 18, 000-foot (5, 500-meter) peak at the center of Gale Crater, Mount Sharp, where scientists hope to get a layer-by-layer look at the history of the planet.
It is a cracked and crumpled layer-cake of rocks, 480 million years in the making, a landscape sculpted by ice then transformed by man and a witness to the birth of the Industrial Revolution.
The mountain is a giant, putrid layer-cake, with dozens of strata of rubbish separated by soil and plastic liners designed to contain the brew of noxious chemicals that would otherwise leach into groundwater.
As we learned when the console was initially announced, the Wii U's "proprietary high-density optical discs" hold up to 25GB of data -- equivalent with that of Sony's single-layer Blu-ray format on the PlayStation 3, and much larger than the Xbox 360's dual-layer DVD format.
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World's first triple-layer Blu-ray Disc media featuring large 100GB recording storage capacity.
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The launcher shoots the bottles at a velocity of 984 feet per second, fast enough to smash a double-layer breeze-block wall and allow assault troops to enter a building, according to the manufacturer, BCB International.
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Some have even gone as far as to state that Sony's strategy of using MPEG-2 and uncompressed PCM audio on single-layer Blu-ray discs may have required too much video compression, resulting in early releases that don't match the sharpness of VC-1 encoded movies available on HD DVD.
"The anti-reflective coating requires multi-layer coatings which are slightly more complex than the typical single-layer ones, " Lin told CNN.
The dual-layer structure used up to now has been augmented with an additional layer where image data can be recorded to create a new triple-layer structure.
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The result is that any coating, such as an antibacterial layer, would be "self-repairing" after small amounts of damage, as the molecular chains just below the damaged layer re-cover the surface.
It is ready for storing and sharing digital media with a large 250GB(1) hard drive and a convenient slot-load 8x DVD Super-Multi Double Layer DVD-RW with DVD-RAM.
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The Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD) incorporates a single BD-ROM layer and a single BD-RE layer so as to enable the user to view, but not overwrite, critical published data while providing the flexibility to include relevant personal data on the same physical disc.
The drives write single BD-R media at up to 12X and dual layer BD-R media at up to 8X speeds, recording a full 25GB disc in about 10 minutes.
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Graphene - a single-layer of carbon atoms - has extraordinary properties which give it immense potential.
The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.
Just hours after Instagram, a mobile app that lets users layer pre-programmed filters over their photos to achieve maximum hipness, launched on Google's Android operating system Tuesday, the snark began.
The green roof is a four-layer, matlike system topped with drought-resistant sedum.
Kim said his staff has figured out a way to create the desirable combination of gallium-nitride top layer on a gallium-nitride substrate.
From the introduction of user-friendly labels like "My Computer, " through the abortive "Microsoft Bob" project (an attempt to build an extra, easy-to-understand layer on top of Windows -- an interface for an interface, if you will), the software giant has been waging a war to get the geekiness out of its operating system.
Therefore, distribution must be delivered through a multi-layer supply chain that ends in thousands of mom-and-pop storefronts.
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As the stock continues to stagnate beneath trendline resistance, these out-of-the-money calls could provide an additional layer of options-related pressure.
In the short term, this abundance of round-number puts could translate into an added layer of options-related support for XOM.
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Nanogate takes a material to be coated, applies a layer of adhesive nanoparticles and then adds another layer of non-adhesive nanoparticles that bind to the first layer.
Consolidation of the activities in Wi-Fi Alliance is intended to bring greater efficiency, ensure closely-harmonized connectivity and application-layer solutions using the technology, and leverage WiGig technology know-how across the range of Wi-Fi technologies.
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True Protect is a multi-layer system to ensure the highest level of data integrity, combining the latest 128-bit error correction built into the Marvell controller with Plextor's exclusive firmware-based Robust Data Hold-out algorithm.
On the desktop front (shown after the jump), the PC Station BJ series sports a slim, compact form factor, an Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4, or Core 2 Duo E4300 depending on model, up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, between 250GB and 320GB of HDD space, a dual-layer DVD burner, Windows Vista, and a number of matching displays between 17- and 22-inches.
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Both models also sport dual-layer backlit keyboards, with a snazzy red tone peeking out from under the black chiclet-style keys.
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