After some experimenting, Norton settled on growing tin in the form of needles (about 50 nanometers in length) and adding textures to the material to create more surface area.
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In a full meltdown, such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, the rods melt completely and the release of energy causes an explosion that contaminates the surrounding area with radioactive material.
Beach downdrift: area of beach towards which material is being moved by longshore transport.
Remarkably, this is the area in which the least material change has taken place to date.
It waned when it seemed to offer no obvious material gain, and returned to the specialised area from which it came.
For example, it is calling for floor area to be included in marketing material and floor plans to include furniture, so that people can get a clearer idea of the size of a property.
Increased concentrations of radioactive material were found in milk and vegetables in the area.
This process, in turn, would have heated up the area outside the plug, vaporizing icy material and turning it into dry matter.
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The result, they claim in a paper that will appear this month in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, is a nanofibre material with an extremely high ratio of surface-area to volume.
It is the process of moving water from an area with a low concentration of dissolved material, such as salt, to a place with a high concentration, by passing through a membrane.
Now, such teams are also called out for hazardous material accidents, weapons of mass destruction and wide-area searches.
Often the piece looks rustic rather than polished, says Mr. Smith, who favors tables made of a local material, such as wood from trees indigenous to the area.
Police also arrested three officers of the municipal agency that clears construction projects in the area, one police official, a building-material supplier, a local politician and a mediator who worked for the builders, Mr. Ballal said.
The material chosen as the "floor" of the courtyard can also help make the area feel like part of the house.
Professor John Zarnecki, principal investigator on Huygens' surface science package (SSP) said the area where Huygens landed appeared to have a thin crust that overlies a material with more uniform consistency something like wet sand.
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Aerial footage afterward showed that some metal framing -- some of it covered in a blue material -- crumpled on the stage, which was in front of a large grassy area.
This massively increases their surface area and hence the charge they can hold, but without impairing the physical strength of the material.
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