Japanese test coaxes fire from ice

Fire and ice.

hanks to the release of Al Gore's latest effort on global warming – this time in book and movie form – climate change is the hot topic in press rooms around the globe. It isn't the first time. The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can't decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling. As the noise from the controversy has inc...

Lessons from a Full Scale Fire Test

This paper draws together some important lessons from a compartment fire test conducted by BRE in the full-scale eight storey steel building at Cardington. The experiment is briefly described, and the main structural observations are highlighted. A numerical structural model of the fire compartment, using the nonlinear analysis program ADAPTIC, is then discussed. The numerical analysis employs ...

Mercury: Planet of Fire and Ice

Mercury’s Exosphere: Mercury’s atmosphere, really an exosphere, is tenuous: The total mass of all known constituents is approximately 15 orders of magnitude less than Earth’s. An exosphere is an atmosphere that has such a low density that collisions between constituents are negligible. Thus, according to Smyth and Marconi, “Mercury has multiatmospheres, with each separate atmosphere forming ind...

Mercury: Planet of Fire and Ice

the ice test for diagnosing myasthenia gravis

there are many tests for diagnosis of myasthenia gravis including tensilon test and ice test.to compare the ice test with tensilon test in sub jects with myasthenic and nonmyasthenic ptosis a process research study was designed. this study was performed in patients complaining of acquired ptosis in the neuro-ophthalmology center of farabi hospital. all 156 patients were tested with ice pack and...