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That meant recruiting two clever instruments with long-winded names a differential scanning calorimeter, which measures the thermal properties of the mixture as it is sorted, and a nuclear-magnetic resonance spectrometer, which measures its chemical properties.
ECONOMIST: Flights of fancy
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CNTs are cylindrical nanostructures of carbon with exceptional electrical, thermal and mechanical properties.
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Most usefully, the ability to make stuff with atomic precision will allow scientists to produce materials with improved, or new, optical, magnetic, thermal or electrical properties.
ECONOMIST: Small wonders
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People have come to Budapest since Roman times to benefit from the healing properties of the thermal water bubbling up from the 118 springs beneath the city.
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In this study, the team tried to change these proteins and reduce the allergic properties of the nuts by subjecting them to gamma radiation and thermal processing.
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The properties of such sheets can be adjusted to create a smart skin with conductivity, hardness or thermal resistance that varies across the thickness of the coating making them ideal for miniature sensors.
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