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Love the articles in MAKE about cool science projects? Wish there was a mag dedicated to just science, stuff like biology, chemistry, physics, art+design, and math? Well the The Citizen Science Quarterly gang are raising money for their first run of 1000 magazines. Check out their Kickstarter video, you can see founder Jacob Schiach mock up a whole first edition by hand!

The Citizen Science Quarterly

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Love the articles in MAKE about cool science projects? Wish there was a mag dedicated to just science, stuff like biology, chemistry, physics, art+design, and math? Well the The Citizen Science Quarterly gang are raising money for their first run of 1000 magazines. Check out their Kickstarter video, you can see founder Jacob Schiach mock up a whole first edition by hand!

The Citizen Science Quarterly

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We've seen the Torah inscribed on a surface the size of a pin, and the atomic pen making inroads into even more impressive feats, but tiny writing never ceases to amaze us. Now, it seems, the entire periodic table of the elements has been scribed onto a single hair -- that of Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. The project involved magnifying the hair under an electron microscope, and 'writing' on it with ions using an ion beam writer to imprint the entire table of elements onto the hair. As you'll see in the video after the break, the results are quite impressive albeit very small.

Continue reading Periodic table blasted onto a single human hair using ions, human reportedly wants his hair back

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We've seen the Torah inscribed on a surface the size of a pin, and the atomic pen making inroads into even more impressive feats, but tiny writing never ceases to amaze us. Now, it seems, the entire periodic table of the elements has been scribed onto a single hair -- that of Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. The project involved magnifying the hair under an electron microscope, and 'writing' on it with ions using an ion beam writer to imprint the entire table of elements onto the hair. As you'll see in the video after the break, the results are quite impressive albeit very small.

Continue reading Periodic table blasted onto a single human hair using ions, human reportedly wants his hair back

Periodic table blasted onto a single human hair using ions, human reportedly wants his hair back originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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OK, so I spruced up the sublimely boring image accompanying this interesting question over at Popular Science with a picture of the thermite reaction. Sorry, but I couldn't find a picture of burning plutonium. C'mon Wikipedia! What's taking so long?

The real answer, it turns out, is something like "at first it would be very exciting, and then it would be very boring." Here's a characteristically droll quote from my old quantum mechanics instructor, John Stanton:

The oxygen gas would react with lithium or sodium and ignite, raising the temperature in the container to the point that all hell would break loose. Powdered graphite carbon would ignite, too. There are roughly 25 radioactive elements, and they would make your flaming stew a little dangerous. Flaming plutonium is a very bad thing.

Of the rather boring low-energy end products, Stanton says:

"Thermodynamics wins again. Things will always achieve equilibrium, and in this case that's a mix of common, stable compounds."

[via Neatorama]

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