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US polymer pricing challenges buyers, sellers
(22 Mar 2010 00:40)
... outages have driven prices up in US polymer markets, although the situation is complicated by ... season approaches, and that could push more monomer onto the market and help drive PP ...
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Think tank: China polyolefins could head higher but supply looms
(22 Mar 2010 00:40)
INSIGHT: Mab Ta Phut crisis will force Thai companies to look overseas "Chemical companies, Thai or foreign, will not find it easy to expand further ...
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Death By Plastic
(22 Mar 2010 05:40)
... in ever-greater quantity. And plastics and their additives aren't just around us, they are inside ... as phthalates. Halden explains that plastics are polymers-long chains of molecules usually made of carbon, ... is the fact that other ingredients-such as plasticizers-are commonly added to plastics. Many of these ...
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Plastics Risks To Human Health And The Environment
(22 Mar 2010 08:48)
... in ever-greater quantity. And plastics and their additives aren't just around us, they are inside ... as phthalates. Halden explains that plastics are polymers - long chains of molecules usually made ... fact that other ingredients - such as plasticizers - are commonly added to plastics. Many ...
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Drug Resistance: New findings reported from University of South Florida describe advances in drug resistance
(22 Mar 2010 05:14)
... properties and emulsions prepared with conventional and polymerizable surfactants.' "Recent efforts in our laboratory have ... (amphiphilic) surfactants, as well as attachable surfactant monomers (surfmers), comparing the cytotoxicity and microbiological activity ...
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New 'Smart' Roof Reads the Thermometer, Saves Energy in Hot and Cold Climates
(22 Mar 2010 04:11)
... cooking oil is processed into a liquid polymer that hardens into a plastic after application. ... from clear to black, depending on what additives are used, he said. The material is ...
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25 tough iPhone cases
(22 Mar 2010 04:21)
... changes in our next update of the list. The Artwizz SeeJacket Crystal is a polycarbonate case that has a protective screen cover built in. Polycarbonate cases do scratch easily; ...
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On the Scene : Cool roof coating: Mechanism kept under wraps
(22 Mar 2010 04:36)
... Is there something embedded in the oily polymer that does the thermostat reading and optical ... itself, but instead depends on some proprietary additive. At which point the briefing was called ...
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Sticky Environmental Problem With Carpet Tiles Solved
(22 Mar 2010 05:44)
... The powerful adhesives currently used to bind the layers of carpet tiles together make it challenging to ...
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Jaguar raises the roof
(22 Mar 2010 03:32)
... Before insertion, the roof is heated to the specific temperature required for the polyurethane adhesive used in the bonding process. The robot then positions the roof underneath an SCA ...
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New bacteria strain points the way toward 'super sourdough' bread
(22 Mar 2010 04:20)
... the world -- to unveil a new natural sourdough ingredient that could replace conventional additives in a variety of other breads, while making them tastier and more healthful? And ...
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Exploiting molecular forces to control the form of nanostructures
(22 Mar 2010 10:19)
... rigidity directly into nanoscopic parameters such as the form and the area occupied by polymer rings, says Frey. We hope that this detailed understanding of polymer behaviour will enable ...
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Fiscal Policy Challenges in the Post-Crisis World, Speech by John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, At the China Development Forum
(22 Mar 2010 06:04)
... will begin by addressing the role of fiscal policy during the crisis. First, automatic stabilizers were allowed to operate fully in almost all countries on both the revenue and ...
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No Stimulus? How About a Progressive Consumption Tax
(22 Mar 2010 09:58)
... very difficult to use discretionary fiscal policy to fight a recession, so more automatic stabilizers are needed. Along those lines, if something like this were to be implemented to ...
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Revealing the mechanism behind the constant motion of organisms from the structure of filamentous actin
(22 Mar 2010 10:30)
... that muscles contract as the motor protein myosin walks along actin filaments (F-actin) polymer sequences of globular actin (G-actin) subunits. The Chemistry of Muscle Contraction, a book by ...
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