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The bus rounds a corner and chugs to a stop in a swirl of silicate dust.
BBC: Missing pieces in Utah
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Comprised of silicate rock, the asteroid rolls through its eccentric orbit like a tumbling potato.
CNN: NEAR and Eros
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This substance (an iron-magnesium silicate whose greenish colour is reminiscent of olives) weathers rapidly in the presence of water.
ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles
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Dr Schiraldi's approach does this by using a silicate clay called sodium montmorillonite as a skeleton that holds the plastic together.
ECONOMIST: An old idea may help solve the problem of plastic waste
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In particular one part of it - calcium silicate hydrate - refused all attempts to be analysed under an electron microscope or by nano-indentation.
BBC: By Ian Hardy
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Abell says the best estimates now are that the Russian object was initially a rocky silicate asteroid that almost certainly originated from the main asteroid belt.
FORBES: NASA Eager To Analyze Russian Meteor Fragments
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The operation came a day after workers plugged a highly radioactive water leak from a concrete pit connected to the number two reactor, using sodium silicate - known as ''water glass''.
BBC: Japan quake: Nitrogen pumped into nuclear reactor
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Key to the program's long-term success will be the death mandated for the clunker: After its oil is drained and replaced with sodium silicate, the engine is run until it seizes.
CNN: 'Cash for clunkers' program under way
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About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
BBC: University of Nottingham
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The general goal of this workshop is a focused review and adoption of a minimum set of QC procedures and QC flags starting with in situ dissolved inorganic nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, and silicate) and dissolved oxygen.
UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES
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On a typical day a ToorCamper can attend a talk on breaking into Android devices or disassembling microprocessors with acid and silicate solution to divine the secret cryptographic keys Microsoft stores there, learn to build a Geiger counter and scuba dive in a kelp forest in search of the North Pacific giant octopus.
FORBES: Robots, Codebreaking and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks