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Lead, like many other metals (do not call them “heavy metals”; see Pourret, 2018), is a global pollutant. Lead poisoning, also known as saturnism, occurs…
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Traditionally, activated sludge has been the most commonly used biological process for municipal wastewater treatment. Soluble microbial products (SMPs) formed by microorganisms constitute a wide…
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Does the arrow of time still point forward even in quantum systems? A new experiment seems to imply yes, quantum systems obey the arrow of…
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The periodic table of the elements is a representation of all of the chemical elements that have been discovered. The elements on the periodic table…
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According to the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, every particle has also an undulatory nature. The characteristic wavelength associated with an elementary particle depends on…
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Graphene has transformed material research worldwide. Graphene is considered an innovative material that could impact a wide variety of fields. The electronic, chemical, and structural…
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The discovery of nanostructured carbon material “fullerenes” has emerged as a new substitute for widely-accepted nanocarbon material like graphene in the world of nano-research. The…
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The power grid of the future will see a heavy penetration of clean energy-based distributed generation (DG), such as solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants, wind…
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Since the time of Galileo and Newton, physicists have believed we live in a classical world—that is, a world that obeys the laws of classical…
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Potential applications of graphene in bioanalytic devices and functional composites have recently attracted wide attention. For these applications, graphene often needs to be exposed to,…
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Nonpolar covalent bonds are bonds where both atoms possess the same electronegativity, and therefore the electrons in the electron bond are shared equally between them….
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