Hence nanotechnology can be used in food production, most often as nanoparticles of silver in food-preparation equipment.

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The simple and inexpensive devices require minimal training to use, practically no sample preparation, and no electricity or additional equipment to process a sample.

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With the team fully assembled, plus equipment, test jumps and years of preparation behind them, all that remained was the small matter of sending a man over 120, 000 feet upwards.

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And in preparation for the possibility of this a few days ago, obviously equipment was taken off of the Enterprise, which I think Thad Allen said yesterday would delay the next step in the containment, which is a helix device that will increase our capability off of the second line coming up from -- in addition to the top hat.

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