It is converting a fermentation plant in Florida into a test facility to see if what works in the laboratory will work at scale.

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In the Carlsberg laboratory, where the pH scale was developed, new types of barley are developed.

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The OSU system has now been proven at a substantial scale in the laboratory, Liu said, and the next step would be a pilot study.

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They have found a number of places, both in the night sky and in the laboratory, where the nature of space and time at the Planck scale would have indirect, but observable effects.

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Before the experiment in the hanger could begin, researchers calculated the pressures the house would experience in a small-scale study conducted at the University's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory -- which has over 40 years of expertise testing high-rise buildings and bridges.

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The industrial and French revolutions, which produced anxiety on a vast scale, saw De Quincey on opium, Coleridge on laudanum and Davy, in his chemical laboratory, giggling and whooping helplessly as he sniffed nitrous oxide gas.

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