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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

My introduction to Monterey, John Steinbeck’s 1945 classic novel “Cannery Row,” describes its waterfront lined in sardine canneries as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” The winemaker Chad Silacci and two other family members worked the bar and the crowd.

Miles 52
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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

Green Car Congress

Another major difference is that the intensity of x-ray scattering increases with the electron density of a material; light elements such as hydrogen and lithium thus make very little contribution to scattering. Neutrons, on the other hand, can obtain an appreciable scattering signal from light elements. Simmons, B., and Singh, S.