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A busy atrium makes for a profitable food sale! Come support your favorite professional society today until 3! (at Rowan Hall Rowan University)

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Above are GIFs of a new energy-absorbing microlattice material that could be used to improve traditional football helmets. 

The material was developed by UCLA and Architected Materials, Inc and was one of the winners of the Head Health Initiative, an open innovation challenge launched by the National Football League, Under Armour, and GE. The initiative calls on researchers, scientists and enthusiasts to find new tools to protect football players from traumatic brain injuries, and features three main challenge topics.

This material was one of seven winners of the second challenge topic, which focused on finding innovative approaches for preventing and identifying brain injuries. Read more about the initiative at GE Reports. 

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A double effect distillation plant.

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The complex of refineries and petrochemical plants in Nizhnekamsk, Russia

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chemical engineer birthday cake :D

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Laboratory worker measuring purified penicillin into bottles, 1943.

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There was a brief moment when I was inside your heart and you were in mine

We knew from the start we were miscible "Like dissolves like" that is what we learned in basic chemistry, right?

We were two liquids flowing in the same path There is bound to be mixing sharing of dipoles and bonds

There...

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So true!

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Had a slow lab in chemical engineering. Decided to make the best of it and record a few gifs of the distillation column that was displayed. It was fun to look at. So many bubbles.

Its distilling a mixture of isopropyl alcohol (2-propanol) and normal-propyl alcohol (1-propanol).

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You were a vapor a free spirit

I was a liquid from the depths of the abyss

We were destined to meet on the stage of our dreams

From the moment our paths crossed attraction could be felt and seen

We were perfect for each other but our encounter was fated

Once equilibrium was...

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How the Radial engine functions.

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Rush Of Gas From A Champagne Bottle

This is a cork popping out of a champagne bottle, as imaged by a high-speed infrared camera. The infrared light lets you see the plumes of carbon dioxide that shoot out of the bottle’s mouth behind the cork. Carbon dioxide is invisible to the naked eye; the fog you might have noticed around the mouth of opened bottles of fizzy drinks isn’t the carbonation. It’s a combination of water vapor and ethanol vapor.

These photos come from researchers at the University of Reims in the Champagne region of France. They wanted to examine the speed of cork-popping at different temperatures. They found, of course, that corks pop faster out of warmer champagne. At higher temperatures, less of the carbon dioxide in champagne remains dissolved in the liquid. Instead, it lives as a gas in the headspace in the bottle’s neck, creating higher pressures there and thus forcing the cork out faster when you finally open the bottle.

The researchers also found that of all of the energy released when a bottle of Champagne is opened, only five percent contributes to the speedy exit of the cork. The rest of the energy creates an audible shock wave—that festive champagne bang, the researchers think. To be sure, they’re planning to measure the sound waves created by popping bubbly.

All science aside, please celebrate responsibly as you welcome in 2014.

Happy New Year!

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How to remember the sign and direction of Gibbs free energy change

Figure out whether the products have more energy or the substrate, the direction and sign is fit in an easy mnemonic! =)

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