• Colloidal fuel is an emulsion of powdered coal in kerosene or fuel oil. It was used in World War I aboard ships as kerosene supplies ran low. Development...
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    fabricate quantum dots. Possible methods include colloidal synthesis, self-assembly, and electrical gating. Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals are synthesized...
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  • Emulsified Fuels are emulsions composed of water and a combustible liquid, either oil or a fuel. Emulsions are a particular example of a dispersion comprising...
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    surface area. Aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide e.g. colloidal silica or a mixture of silica and alumina can be used. The catalytic materials...
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  • smokeless coal briquettes and worked on the manufacturing process for colloidal fuel. On the nationalisation of the British coal industry in 1946, Jones...
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    Commissioned by the publishers, Pulverised and Colloidal Fuel is a treatise on the use of powdered fuels to produce power. It was well-reviewed by Dunn's...
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    devices, including the Sanborn Speed Indicator. She also performed colloidal fuel experiments with pulverized coal at New Haven and New York. The Navy...
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  • used in World War 2 Germany, both alone as a liquid monopropellant and colloidal with nitrocellulose as a solid propellant. The otherwise desirable characteristics...
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    depending on reaction conditions. Platinum nanoparticles are suspended in the colloidal solution of brownish-red or black color. Nanoparticles come in wide variety...
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    Sulfur (redirect from Colloidal sulfur)
    bacteria, fungi, scabies mites, and other parasites. Precipitated sulfur and colloidal sulfur are used, in form of lotions, creams, powders, soaps, and bath...
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    Lithium hydride (category Nuclear fusion fuels)
    Bridgman–Stockbarger technique. They often have bluish color owing to the presence of colloidal Li. This color can be removed by post-growth annealing at lower temperatures...
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  • (Ti). The process involves conversion of monomers in solution into a colloidal solution (sol) that acts as the precursor for an integrated network (or...
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  • Emulsion (category Colloidal chemistry)
    photographic film. Such a photographic emulsion consists of silver halide colloidal particles dispersed in a gelatin matrix. Nuclear emulsions are similar...
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    Ferrofluid is a liquid that is attracted to the poles of a magnet. It is a colloidal liquid made of nanoscale ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic particles suspended...
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    brass; and to control precipitation of alkali-soluble and acid-insoluble colloidal dyes on wool. The compound occurs in the nature as the exceedingly rare...
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    important for solid oxide fuel cells and water filtration devices. To process a sample through ice templating, an aqueous colloidal suspension is prepared...
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    geothermal energy plants has been used in pilot plants as a source of colloidal silica (Wairakei, New Zealand, and Mammoth Lakes, California), and as...
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    molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based molten (liquid) salt for fuel. In a typical design, the liquid is pumped between...
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  • "Combustion characteristics of colloidal droplets of jet fuel and carbon based nanoparticles". Fuel. 188: 182–189. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2016.10.040. ISSN 0016-2361...
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    Ostwald ripening (category Colloidal chemistry)
    or sol particles was first described by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1896. For colloidal systems, Ostwald ripening is also found in water-in-oil emulsions, while...
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  • Electroosmotic pump (category Fuel cells)
    Ayusman (2017-05-30). "Chemically Controlled Spatiotemporal Oscillations of Colloidal Assemblies". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (27): 7817–7821...
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    Coacervate (category Colloidal chemistry)
    Hugo R. Kruyt while studying lyophilic colloidal dispersions. The name is a reference to the clustering of colloidal particles, like bees in a swarm. The...
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    sulfate) Particulate fouling, i.e., accumulation of particles, typically colloidal particles, on a surface Corrosion fouling, i.e., in-situ growth of corrosion...
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    electrolysis Electrophoretic deposition – electrolytic deposition of colloidal particles in a liquid medium Electropolishing – the reverse of electroplating...
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  • they do not undergo ionization. They are insoluble in water. They form a colloidal solution in solvents. They have poor (basic dyes) to good (metal complex...
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    combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply...
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    Double layer (surface science) (category Colloidal chemistry)
    This application, however, is impossible in colloidal and porous double layers, because for colloidal particles, one does not have access to the interior...
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    smaller size drives very different physical or chemical properties, like colloidal properties and ultrafast optical effects or electric properties. Being...
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    much as several times its dry mass in water. Because of its excellent colloidal properties, it is often used in drilling mud for oil and gas wells and...
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  • which limits its use to mild contact conditions. Some formulations use colloidal PTFE (Teflon), but its efficiency is controversial. Many AW additives...
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