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Silver Chloride (AgCl) - Properties and Applications

Silver Chloride (AgCl) is best known for its use in photography and reference electrodes in pH meters. Other applications and properties are provided.

From Goodfellow 8 Jan 2004

Polyaramid Polyparaphenylene Terephthalamide (Kevlar/Twaron ) - Properties and Applications - Supplier Data by Goodfellow

Polyaramid polyparaphenylene terephthalamide, is mnore commonly known by the tradenames Kevlar and Twaron. Chemical, mechanical, physical and thermal are provided for these generic materials. Specific data for Kevlar 29, Kevlat 49 and Kevlar Ht are also provided.

From Goodfellow 19 May 2003

Tin Oxide (SnO2) Stannic Oxide - Properties and Applications

Tin oxide (SnO2) or stannic oxide is commonly used as an opacifier in ceramic glazes. It use in this application is briefly outlined. Properties of tin oxide are also listed.

From Keeling & Walker Limited 4 Feb 2004

Cellulose Acetate - CA

Transparent, glossy and reasonably hard for a thermoplastic. Has reasonable impact resistance at low temperatures. Advantages, diadvantages and applications are listed together with a table of typical properties for this thermoplastic.

From Goodfellow 7 May 2001

Silica - Fused Silica (Silicon Dioxide)

Fused silica is an amorphous grade of silica known for its low thermal expansion and thermal shock resistance. It is made by melting high purity silica sands and has uses in refractories, investment casting, radar windows etc

From CiDRA Precision Services - Machining of Materials 2 May 2002

Stainless Steel 304 and 316 – The Differences

Stainless is a term that was applied to cover a broad range of steel types and grades developed for oxidation or corrosion resistant applications.

From Masteel UK Ltd 8 Jan 2018

Developing Ultrafast 2D NMR for a Benchtop Spectrometer

Ultrafast 2D NMR for a benchtop spectrometer allows 2D NMR scans of complex mixtures to be carried out in seconds, rather than hours.

From Magritek 10 Jan 2018

Characterizing Food Packaging Using Sub-Micron Resolution IR

New IR technology enables sub-micron analysis of multi-layer films for food packaging.

From Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp 10 Jan 2018

Gold/Palladium (Au/Pd) Alloys - Properties and Applications

Gold palladium alloys are primarily used in jewellery, where they are known as white gold. Some compositions are provided for palladium containing white gold. Other uses such as dentistry are also mentioned.

From Goodfellow 13 Feb 2004

Titanium Diboride (TiB2) - Properties and Applications

TiB2 is an extremely hard material with an extremely high melting point. These properties lend it to uses as ballistic armour, cathodes in Hall-Heroult cells for aluminium smelting as well as seals and wear parts.

From Goodfellow 18 May 2001