The film provides an introduction to crystal growth and structure, focusing on sodium chloride (common salt) as a primary example. It details the process of crystal formation under a microscope, ...

Foods high in sodium may not always be so easy to spot. Even if you never reach for the salt shaker, you probably eat more sodium than you realize. More than 70% of the sodium in our diets comes from ...

Researchers found that a solution of sodium chloride tablets and water helped athletes retain fluid during exercise, compared with athletes who used an alternative glycerol-based solution.

Seljakow, J. Kurdumoff, and N. Goodtzow (NATURE, 119, 494; 1927), that quenched carbon steels contain a phase with a tetragonal crystal structure, which might be considered as a deformation of the ...

According to Prof. Bartal, “The fact that a quasicrystal is a ‘shadow’ of a periodic crystal in a higher dimension is not new in itself. What we discovered is that the projection includes not only the ...

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, taking advantage of rare earths’ powerful, flexible optical ...

Project leader Professor Yoichi Murakami commented, "Although that structure was anticipated when I first looked at the layered morphology, I was excited when the results of the single-crystal X ...

The electrons are trapped by some of the oxide crystal's defects, for instance the individual gaps in the structure where a single oxygen atom should be, but isn't. "It's impossible to find ...

If you're one of the many Americans trying to reduce the sodium in your diet, potassium chloride may help do the trick, dietitians say. But some people need to be careful when adding this to their ...

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, United Kingdom ...