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Applied Sonochemistry: Uses of Power Ultrasound in Chemistry and Processing
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Power ultrasound has been used for many years in two specific industrial areas: cleaning and plastic welding. Over the last ten years an increasing interest has been shown in its potential for use over a much wider range of chemistry and processing which has been grouped together under the general title of sonochemistry. Most of these uses depend on the generation of acoustic cavitation in liquid media but this text, while underlining the importance of the physics and mathematics of cavitation, mainly concentrates on applications of the technology.
After an introduction to the topic and some historical background to the uses of power ultrasound the general principles of acoustic cavitation are explored including some background physics, bubble dynamics and factors which influence cavitation. The remainder of the book incorporates a series of applications of sonochemistry which illustrate the types of physical and chemical effects of ultrasonically induced cavitation which will interest chemists and engineers alike. Amongst the major topics included are chemical synthesis, environmental protection and remediation of water, sewage and soils, polymer synthesis and processing, electrochemistry including both analytical and synthetic aspects and plating. The final chapter reviews the range of ultrasonic equipment available in the laboratory and the progress made towards the scale-up of sonochemistry.
The level is introductory to semi-advanced and no topic has been taken to a particularly specialist level since it is intended that this should be of general interest to readers with a scientific background.
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Early learning has never been more alive...or lively! Dramatically illustrated and die-cut, with engaging texts, the Know It Alls(tm) series provides a first scientific look at our planet. In Dinosaurs! kids go from Brachiosaurus, the 80-ton vegetarian to Velociraptor, with its razor sharp claws - all the dino "heavies" are here! Awesome illustrations and special stat boxes highlighting key facts add to the fun. Look for other titles in this exciting series:
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Great for Dinosaur Lovers.......2006-01-08
This book is great for young dinosaur lovers. It gives just enough information to teach a child about dinosaurs but doesn't overwhelm them with technical jargon. The CD that comes with the book works great; our four-year-old could easily follow along with the CD. The only thing I would suggest is for the publisher to have more of this kind of product for kids.
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Amazing Prehistoric Facts (Amazing Fact Series)
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Educational activity book to help your child learn more about prehistoric animals and have fun doing it.
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Laser Cleaning
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Laser cleaning is very important for modern high technology. It is used, or considered for use in the fabrication of printed circuit boards, in the production of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), in lithography and epitaxial growth, for the removal of contaminations during via-hole production, and for the cleaning of micro-optical and micro-mechanical components.
This invaluable book presents the mechanics of the cleaning processes, experimental results, and different applications, including laser cleaning of art. It contains review articles by leading specialists in laser cleaning who participated in the 1st International Workshop on Laser Cleaning, held in Singapore in 2001.
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Laser Cleaning II
D. m. Kane
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Laser Cleaning II is the second of a series of books reporting research on the use of lasers for cleaning material surfaces and related micro-scale and nano-scale laser processing. It follows Laser Cleaning, edited by Boris Luk yanchuk, published in 2002. The primary focus is on contaminant particle removal, nano-scale sized particles in particular, which represents a major cleaning challenge in industrial contexts and poses a broad range of research questions. The contributions provide stimulating answers to these questions, spanning the essential areas: the fundamental theoretical and experimental physics of light/particle/interface interactions, invention and development of laser cleaning techniques and diagnostics, simulations for important material and process systems, and laser cleaning and processing applications. Laser cleaning for art and cultural heritage conservation is a related, mature field of research which is also treated.
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Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks: LACONA VI Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 21--25, 2005 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)
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Over the last decades, the use of lasers in artwork conservation has became an important tool for many conservators, scientists, architects and other experts, who are involved in the care of monuments and artefacts or applied laser technology. Professor Costas Fotakis first brought together restorers and scientists in 1995 to discuss the potential of lasers in art conservation. The field of “Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks” has since gained considerably in importance, and nowadays restorers and laser scientists work closely together to develop new applications. Furthermore a large number of national and international research projects have been carried out by conservator-restorers, architects and scientists. In the last 10 years, historical and artistically high-quality monuments (e.g. St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna) have been cleaned or measured by laser, and this has established the laser in the spectra of tools that are useful in the practical realm of artworks. The proceedings of the 2005 congress addresses scientists, conservator-restorers, companies, architects, decision-makers and other experts involved in conservation projects or in the research of new laser equipment.
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This digital document is an article from Label & Narrow Web, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 420 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Cleaning anilox rolls using laser technology.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
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The potential of laser technology for controlled clean-up and analysis of Prestige tanker oil spill from coastal rocks is examined. Some of the massive cleaning methods cause more damage on the environment than they want to prevent. Laser treatment offers advantages with respect to these techniques such as the absence of additional residues and a minimal damage to the underlying substrate material. For these reasons, laser cleaning is presented as an alternative or complementary method in spills response available for minimizing their impact on the environment and human health. Test results of the yield of the laser cleaning process performed by a Nd:YAG laser emitting at two wavelengths are presented for various types of rocks polluted by the spill found on the north Galician coast. The laser cleaning process is controlled by the spectral analysis of the emission from the laser-produced plasma in order to avoid damage to the original rock surface. In order to provide complementary data, a morphological and compositional comparison of polluted and cleaned pieces has been performed by scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Technology, published by Gardner Publications, Inc. on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 605 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Lasers now clean molds and parts.(Laser Cleaning)
Author: Robert Leaversuch
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Welding gets lean & clean: equipment provides greater flexibility and smaller automation setups.
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Laser Cleaning in Conservation: An Introduction (Conservation & Museology)
John Larson
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* First book to be written on this subject area * Describes pioneering work of John Larson and colleagues * Includes chapter on laser cleaning of paintings * In-depth and wide-ranging case studies show methods and results of use of lasers in conservation 'Laser Cleaning in Conservation' is the first book to be written on this subject. The development of the laser as a practical tool has been a significant advance in the refinement of conservation techniques. It is only over the past five years that conservators have begun to realize the full potential of laser technology. The extremely selective cleaning offered by lasers results in very high quality work while minimizing any damage caused.
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Laser Ignition Of Oil Spills: Telescope Assembly And Testing
M Frish
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Setting the Lawn on Fire, the first novel by critically acclaimed writer Mack Friedman, trails its narrator through his obsessions with sex, drugs, art, and poison. Ivan, a young Jewish boy from Milwaukee, embarks on a journey of sexual discovery that leads him from Wisconsin to Alaska, Philadelphia, and Mexico through stints as a fishery worker, artist, and finally a hustler who learns to provide the blank canvas for other people’s dreams. The result is a new kind of coming-of-age story that sees passion from every angle because its protagonist is every kind of lover: the seducer and the seduced, the pornographer and the model, the hunter and the prey, the trick and the john. In the end, Setting the Lawn on Fire is also something rare—a fully realized, contemporary romance that illuminates the power of desire and the rituals of the body, the brain, and the heart that attempt to contain our passions.
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Coming-Of-Age.......2006-12-24
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Friedman, Mack, Setting the Lawn on Fire, Terrace Books, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2206.
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Coming of age is never an easy thing. Some of us managed to do it with style but the majority of us remember those years of moving into adulthood as really rough periods. Mack Friedman gives us a coming of age and a coming out story that is just a wonderful read. There are times you are rocking in laughter and there are times that you are bleary with tears as you read this short novel of 147 pages.
We have had so many coming out stories that I approached this book with reluctance. I thought to myself, "Ho hum, another one". But I was so wrong and by the time I reached the third page I was so rapt that even a new episode of "Desperate Housewives" would not have caused me to put it down.
Ivan, a young Jewish boy from Milwaukee, is our main character and his journey through life is a journey of self discovery. As he travels, and travel he does--Wisconsin, Alaska, Philadelphia, Mexico and stops in between--he learns more about himself at each place. And as he learns he tells us about his learning process. He spends time as a hustler, a factory worker, a student and an artist.
We meet Ivan as he succumbs to the games of early childhood (you know those games!) and then watch him take off and speed through adolescence, saunter through young adulthood and swagger into a period as a hustler. Of course his self sacrifice to lust is perhaps the most interesting part of the book if a favorite part must be chosen. The final picture we get of Ivan is of a complete individual, "a full fledged sexual identity" and a representative of what the world of desire can cause a person to become. In fact, desire seems to permeate every page of the book. Likewise the book arouses the sensory perceptions as presented by Friedman in a beautiful and precise writing style.
The significance of the title of the book--the reference to fire--can be felt on every page, And I do not mean "flaming", I mean hot, hot descriptions of a kid not only coming of age but coming to terms with the world around him. This is a an honest book that is straightforward and bold as well as quite an accomplishment for a fist novel. What impresses me the most about it is that it is humble, it is human, it is honest, and it is sublime.
Some of you may think that I never give a book a bad review. To some degree that is true. If I don't like a book, I prefer not to review because if I do someone may buy it. I like to play it safe by reviewing books that I feel contribute something to our daily lives as gay people, Setting the Lawn on Fire not only does this but it also makes me want to ask when is Friedman's next book coming. Reading this book was kind of like having the salad before the rest of the meal. It made me hungry for more.
The Pay Off.......2006-12-07
Mack Friedman's novel is nearly an unqualified triumph, told from beginning to end in the sort of poetic language that reaches to amazing heights and plumbs the lower depths in the bargain. Shadows of great civilizations hang in the balance. It has a range and geographic sweep that puts other contemporary novels to shame, for our young hero Ivan, born to an unfortunate family in Wisconsin, travels the length and breadth of North America looking for the one thing he could never get from his traditional middle-class education, a sense of belonging. I was surprised and thrilled when Ivan decided to go to Alaska and work with his hands as a teen. As an American boy growing up in France, I devoured novels and comics set in Alaska, and Friedman seems to me to strike exactly the right balance for writing directly about space and time--the compressed and extended seasons of the north, the foreshortened days, the glorious months of summer. At conjuring up place, there's no one like him, and his Mexican and Pennsylvanian fearscapes are just as vivid. Where did he learn the patois of so many different kinds of people? You'll pick up the book and the dialogue alone will capture you.
Yet Ivan's story, his ceaseless desire for connection, has its own emotional underpinnings that merge with the sexual. To quell his feelings of self-loathing, and due to extreme horniness, he becomes a hustler, first as a call boy, then in absurd concatenation he cleans your house or apartment wearing only a jockstrap. When he first goes on a call, to a client who's into "spontaneous incest," he's directed to go down on his "cousin" and we find out at that moment that never has he--well I can't give away any more spoilers, Friedman will track me down and break my bones, but needless to say it's a dramatic surprise twist that to me had the punch of say, the end of THE SIXTH SENSE. The lush life of Friedman's prose nearly conceals his knack for the pure storytelling power we all crave at heart. He knows how to spin us out and he knows how to reel us in. Ivan's peregrinations occur under the shadow of Jeffrey Dahmer, another confused Wisconsin boy with a score to settle against society, and Friedman cannily plays off Ivan's all American appeal against Dahmer's sociopathology, and the payoff is the way they seem gradually to bleed into each other, so that the artificial borders of so called "psychology" dissolve in a blur of sensation.
The only thing that I didn't care for was the baroque treatment of Ivan's mom and dad, who are dispatched with the slick efficiency of a Lemony Snicket novel. Mom comes down with a withering virus that makes her last days resemble Margaret Hamilton melting under water, while Dad is almost absurdly "absent," as though to stress the emotional neediness of the young would be hustler. What happens to Mom and Dad shouldn't happen to a dog and of course, their fates impart to the material of SETTING THE LAWN ON FIRE a very 70s, Gothic feeling, like a couple of characters from a gay version of CHRISTINA'S WORLD. Maybe this was an autobiographical fillip and something like this actually occurred in Friedman's own family but still, that's no reason to gild the lily of one's novel with it. It's a book with treasure enough, its surfaces and its sinkholes all perfectly designed, pretty as goldfish, sad as the sun.
GENIUS.......2006-10-08
I don't write reviews, and am rather embarrassed to be doing so. But the others here were crazy. Just this: this is among the best gay novels of the last 20 years. All you need to know: Beautiful, vital, new. I'm a writer and editor, and Mack has a very brilliant piece too in a book I am editing. I've never met him, though, and am incorruptable anyhow.
Missing this book is your loss.
"Look at me. Take as much as you can" .......2006-08-29
Ivan, the main protagonist in Mack Friedman's first novel, isn't your usual confused and diffident gay teenager. Aching to be cut loose from his middle-class and somewhat conservative Jewish roots, Ivan begins to realize who and what he is at a very early age. Ivan is of course devastated when his archaeologist mother suddenly dies. When his father leaves to pursue his scientific research overseas, Ivan is largely left to his own devices.
It is 1985 and Ivan's friendship with Jeremy shapes much of his adolescence and his bourgeoning attraction towards men. He even admits that he didn't know what he was becoming, "it was because I didn't think I was. I had a sense of it but my point of view was limited: it was skin-deep and the boys always had clothes on."
An experience with his gymnastics teacher alters forever his prudish and hesitant views on sex, but it is the erotic images of boys in medical textbooks, that awakens Ivan to the first enthralls of self-pleasure, and he gradually becomes obsessed with these distilled images. Their influence over Ivan is undeniably powerful, his fascination with these boys largely affecting his ability to relate to men later in his journey.
In his early twenties, Ivan travels to the island of Ketchikan, off the west coast of British Columbia to work as a day laborer in a fish factory. Here he meets a bunch of other like-minded young, sexually frustrated, drifter guys. Although he keeps his sexual orientation to himself, he soon develops a crush on a boy called Sean and begins to obsess over "his dark nippled and his torn boxers."
In Sean, Ivan spies a kindred spirit, "our dead mothers, and our hug at the ferry," but Ivan is unable to form any real connection with Sean - perhaps because he's just too obsessed with the dream of finding the ideal man. Upon returning home, he tries to reconnect with his mother's memory through her scrap books and her possessions, but instead gets himself involved a number of compromising sexual situations, playing out his fantasies, as he searches for this strange and enigmatic boy of his youth who has slipped away.
Perhaps the real lessons are to be learned in Philadelphia where Ivan becomes a hustler with an escort agency and ends up tricking with the City's mayor. These erotic encounters are no longer sexually rewarding for Ivan, in reality, they mask a reluctance and hesitancy. As though Ivan is desperately trying to retrieve his boyish innocence: "any boy will really do, as long as he resembles how I used to look and how I used to feel."
Setting the Lawn on Fire is indeed a provocative and challenging study of the cyclical nature of desire and the sexual yearning of youth. Ivan journeys through a world of frantic sex from adolescence to early adulthood, the unusual sense of urgency always present. The confusion, the terror, and above all, the overwhelming aspirations of Ivan's are very much reflective of the gay everyman as he forges a path through the surreptitious conduits of adolescence, where fear of sex is often bred in isolation.
At times the novel can be hard to read; it often comes across as lacking continuity and overly metaphorical, but the prose is always spectacular as Friedman draws us into his stunning images. For Ivan, his journey ends in Mexico, where he remembers the time he spent with his beloved mother and where "moments lay piled on top of each other like cards, as soon as you look twice the deck's already reshuffled."
This young man is forced to cover the breadth of emotions - loneliness, despair, acceptance, passion and possibly even redemption. At the end of the novel, Ivan hasn't found any easy answers to the quandary of unchecked desire, but at least he has tried to make sense of his tumultuous past, whilst also facing the possibility an uncertain future. Mike Leonard August 06.
One Boy's Journey to Adulthood.......2006-06-29
The series of poetic, sexually-charged vignettes which make up this book create a very different picture of a young gay man from the typical coming out novel. However, the sense of extreme isolation remains, especially after the narrator Ivan is virtually abandoned by his parents. His already itinerant mother dies from a virus and his father leaves the country to pursue his scientific research. But Ivan chooses to isolate himself further by travelling to work in an Alaskan fish factory where he falls in love with a young man he shares a tent with. Ivan has a propensity for rejecting any prospects for a real connection in favour of pursuing the dream of the unattainable. Later, after Ivan moves back home, a young man propositions him in the locker room. But he leaves him in favour of trying to feel up a young Romanian basketball player he's cornered in a parking garage. There's a sense of danger here for the boy's safety as Ivan plays out his sexual fantasy, just as later on when he begins working as an escort we fear for Ivan's safety. The multifarious erotic encounters Ivan pursues turn out not to be for sexual fulfilment, but a desperate reclaiming of his boyhood self: "any boy will really do, as long as he resembles how I used to look, reminds me how I used to feel. I lost touch. You see. I shake myself away." Although Ivan is rapidly reaching the age of adulthood, there is a sense that his childhood has been lost or stolen. His pursuit to reclaim it is oftentimes disturbing like his obsession with medical textbook photographs of naked boys or the series killer who takes the body parts of his gay victims that lurks in the background of this story.
While Friedman's beautifully written chronicle of this unique character's early life can at times become disjointed and confused, he has a stunning turn of phrase that oftentimes yields startling insights. After a hurried session with a john in his attic, Friedman describes how Ivan psychologically deals with the horror of the encounter in a very haunting way: "I replay the scene over and over until I sense him as vague spirit, bearing just the remnants of its form." This is a powerful insight into the way people can continuously conjure up events beyond their control in their own minds as a way of emotionally owning them. This provocative book is insightful, wryly funny, daring and a challenge that is really worth undertaking.
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