Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2014
Researchers from QUILL —the Queen’s University (Belfast) Ionic Liquid Laboratories—will display a novel process for removing toxic mercury from natural gas using ionic liquids at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow, 1 July, at Royal Society headquarters in central London.
Teslarati
JANUARY 17, 2023
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Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. In 1960, he began giving the occasional public lecture at the Royal Institution , in London, filling in for speakers at the last minute.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 27, 2021
Born in 1791, he received only a barebones education at church school in his village of Newington, Surrey (now part of South London). He took a deep glass vessel, secured a magnet upright in it with some wax, and then filled the vessel with mercury until the magnetic pole was just above the surface. The next day, he got it right.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
HRI 2023 : 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLM Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. The MEMS version, of course, is only a few millimeters in size, and instead of mercury, it uses a suspended block of silicon. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. The Frasch process can be tremendously damaging to the surrounding environment and mineworkers’ health. The process also spews out wastewater that contains hydrogen sulfide , which has similar toxic properties to carbon monoxide.
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