Shock Waves Needed to Create Planets

www.space.com | Nov 17, 2008

Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081117-shock-waves.html

Ecliptek Bucks Industry Trend by Building World's Largest Crystal and Oscillator Factory Inventory

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PR: Ecliptek Corporation, with over 20 years as a leader in frequency products, has expanded it's available inventory in the face of the economic downturn, providing access to millions of parts from stock. This unprecedented move offers customers major relief from restraining lead time issues. Cost

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1532784.htm

Shiva: Another K-T Impact?

According to the Earth Impact Database, there are two craters - the 180 kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico and the much smaller Boltysh crater in eastern Ukraine - that date back to the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction 65 million years ago.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/deepimpact-04r.html

VTT

Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT, in co-operation with VTI Technologies Oy, has developed a new timer circuit that is one hundred times smaller than the traditional quartz crystal.

http://www.vtt.fi/uutta/2006/20060523.jsp?lang=en

Manufacturers of instruments for the indication, recording, controlling of: temperature, pressure,...

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Manufacturers of instruments for the indication, recording, controlling of: temperature, pressure, liquid level, volume, specific gravity, humidity, etc. - ;: - Also meteorological r and aircraft instruments. NEGRETTI FUEL FLOW & ZAMBRA NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA LTD., 122 REGENT ST., LONDON W.

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1959/1959%20-%202165.PDF

A Summary of Quartz Crystal Resonator Characteristics

Crystal Resonators are used in almost all Spread Spectrum, RF and wireless systems -- thus designers should know something about them. The "Beginner's Boxes" below graphically present the most important characteristics of quartz crystals.

http://www.sss-mag.com/crystal.html

Stheno - Enabling Chiral Solutions

Calcite, or Iceland Spar, is a transparent form of calcium carbonate. In 1669 Erasmus Bartholin discovered that calcite was doubly refracting; when a naturally-occurring crystal is placed over some writing, two images of the writing are observed.

http://www.sthenocorp.com/history.htm