The present paper reports on the experimental and theoretical investigations on the lower explosion limits of single dusts, gases as well of two phase mixtures such as gas/dust, vapor/dust, spray/vapor and vapor/gas. The materials used were corn starch, lycopodium, toner and high density polyethylene as dusts, methane and hydrogen as combustible (perfect) gases and acetone and isopropanol as sp...

Background: Approximately one quarter of all nosocomial infections can be attributed to the urinary tract. The infections are supposed to be mainly caused by implantations of urethral catheters and stents. A new catheter design is introduced with the aim to lower the high number of nosocomial urethral infections. In order to avoid limitations to use, the design is first applied to conventional ...

The process of sunspot formation is considered with the account of heat effects. According to the Le Chatelier principle, a local overheating must precede to the cooling of solar surface in the places of sunspot formation. The sunspot dynamics is a process close to the surface nucleate-free boiling in a thin layer with formation of bubbles (or craters), so we focus on the analogy between these ...