Essays Tagged: "Slurry"

Essay about a new, "nature friendly" plastic. pics of process can be found at www.newscientist.com

long. That is, until now.Scientists in Hawaii have developed "a biological reactor that converts a slurry of food waste into a biodegradable plastic". That's correct, we Americans, who throw out over ... the food, releasing acid. The acid was siphoned off via a pump into a second container, while more slurry was added to the mix. "(Yu) found that the acid molecules in the slurry gradually diffused th ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The seperation of Uranium

ill which is usually located close to the mine. At the mill the ore is crushed and ground to a fine slurry which is leached in sulfuric acid:UO3 + 2H+ ====> UO22+ + H2OUO22+ + 3SO42- ====> UO2(S ...

(4 pages) 25 0 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Spearmint lab

2-0.5 mm, 35-70 mesh). Mix the measured amount of silica gel with enough hexanes to make a pourable slurry.Label five 20-ml scintillation vials 1-5. These vials will be used to collect the column frac ...

(3 pages) 15 0 4.2 Feb/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Sedimentation

cess of separating a liquid mixture of suspended particles into clear supernatant liquid and denser slurry having a higher concentration of solids. This is usually accomplished by allowing the particl ... ter.This experiment aims to determine the effect of initial concentration and initial height of the slurry on its settling characteristics. Using a set of data obtained from the experiment, a continuo ...

(21 pages) 16 0 5.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Chemical Engineering