On Saturday night, dozens of people spotted a fiery object burning and breaking up, creating several streaks across the night ...

Crushed / Irregular Abrasive grit, nugget, or media has a crushed or irregular shape. Typically, the irregular or crushed shapes are very angular with sharp edges for abrading, cutting, or grinding.

In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space. As it orbits the planet from some 250 ...

Sodium aluminate forms through the chemical reaction of aluminum oxide with sodium hydroxide and water, as follows: The residues sink gradually to the bottom of the tank and are later removed. In the ...

Joe walks us through how he restores a rusty 1960s Structo airport truck, from removing the rust to powder-coating the parts.

Like their gemstone cousin the sapphire, rubies are just a variety of corundum, or aluminum oxide. Where sapphire gets its blue tint mainly from iron, rubies get their pink to blood-red hue from ...

Aluminum doesn’t solder well, and that’s because of the oxide layer that rapidly forms on the surface. [Ted]’s solution is to scour the aluminum with some mineral oil. The goal is to scrape ...

A Japanese team launched LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, to the International Space Station (ISS). This 10-cm³ ...

A form of lithium-ion battery called LFP is becoming increasingly popular among automakers due to its advantages on cost, ...

An international team of scientists have combined cyclic-olefin copolymers with a powder of aluminum oxide to create a ...

Paris-based aluminum product producer Constellium SE has implemented laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology ...