If you need to insulate a damaged cable or install new wiring, it’s always a good idea to have a few heat shrink tubes on hand. Thanks to their adaptable …
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Properties and Applications of Polyethylene
Polyethylene (PE) is one of the plastics that, thanks to its favourable material properties, has found a wide range of applications and become an indispensable mass-market material. Polyethylene – The …
Read more »Permeability and Barrier Properties of Plastics
Plastics are used in countless applications thanks to their versatile modifications and properties. They can be found in nearly every area of daily life, whether in a car, on a …
Read more »What are Food Safe Plastics?
Polymers for Safe Contact With Food and Beverages Whether as PET bottles, packaging films, or tubes and hoses in machines for processing meat, fish, poultry and dairy products, in equipment …
Read more »The Maximum Flow Coefficient of 3-Way Valves Explained
Valves are part of our everyday life – in water taps, bicycle valves, or as 3-way mixing valves in heating systems. The latter regulate the flow rates of liquids or …
Read more »Proper Pipetting
How a Pipette Works In every laboratory, small liquid volumes frequently need to be measured and dispensed with care. For this purpose, pipettes are used. However, there are a few …
Read more »Biocompatibility
Prostheses, implants and suture materials all have one requirement in common: they should cause as little adverse effect as possible on the surrounding tissue and on the human body as …
Read more »Methods for Separating Suspensions
Any substance that is not a pure substance is a mixture of substances. Since very few of the things that surround us are pure substances, the separation of mixtures is …
Read more »What Are Viscosity and Viscoelasticity?
Honey, water, ketchup and a starch solution represent four liquids with four very different flow behaviours. Honey flows slowly and thickly, but it can be made thinner by gentle heating. …
Read more »Plastics and Their Coefficient of Friction
In plant and mechanical engineering, in drive technology, or in precision mechanics, information on the friction behavior of the materials used is essential, with the coefficient of friction being a …
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