Zirconia is a white powdered material used to produce dental frameworks for dental substructures such as crowns, bridges, etc. Unlike standard ceramics that tend to be brittle and hard, Zirconia has excellent wear resistance and strength, and comes with a flexibility which is far better than those of other technical ceramics.
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is a chemical compound of the elements, silicon and nitrogen. It is one of the leading technical ceramic materials available on the market and has similar properties like silicon carbide.
In various industries, there are customers who wish to know more about geared metering pumps, their design, make and model, operation, benefits, etc.
Customers may often face the question of whether to stay with their present manual batch mixing operation or change things over to continuous meter, mix and dispense process.
Mahr Metering Systems is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mahr Metering Systems GmbH and has been serving the North American pump and metering system market since 1983. The company has always been at the forefront of innovation.
Alex Koprivc, Automotive Industry Manager at Zwick/Roell, talks to AZoM about quality assurance trends in the automotive industry.
Speed, power and beauty are just a few of the things that the Lamborghini Veneno can boast. Unveiled in 2013 in Geneva, the Veneno was completed to mark 50 years for Lamborghini in the motor industry.
By Alessandro Pirolini
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G.T. Michelli Co. offers and systems and products in the force measurement field as well as support services for maintaining the applications provided in a myriad of markets and industries, ranging from biomedical facilities to petrochemical manufacturing.
Rainbows have inspired poetry, songs and stories for centuries and a material capable of halting and absorbing light is making "catching" these uncommon sightings possible. The innovative material is the work of Qiaoqiang Gan, a PhD researcher and an assistant professor of electrical engineering along with graduate students from the University of Buffalo (UB). They published a paper with their findings in February 2013 titled “Rainbow Trapping in Hyperbolic Metamaterial Waveguide”.
By Alessandro Pirolini
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You may wonder how makeup artists turn actors into animals, monsters and aliens - using prosthetic makeup, a person can be turned into virtually anything.
By Alessandro Pirolini
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