This cool video from the American Chemical Society tells what materials make up a match head, describes the chemical reactions that go on as the match burns, and shows what happens as combustion proceeds.
March 2016 Issue of Advanced Materials & Processes, featuring: Testing Automotive Composites, Metallurgy Lane Pioneers in Metals research, and HTPro Newsletter
Buehler, Lake Bluff., Ill., introduces the Wilson VH3300 Vickers/Knoop hardness test system, which expands the range of automatic Vickers/Knoop hardness testers with a solution tailored to measurements with very high and/or very low test loads.
John R. (Chip) Keough, FASM, of Applied Process Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., was selected by the American Foundry Society (AFS) to present the Cast Iron Division Honorary Lecture at its upcoming Metalcasting Congress in April.
Nikon Metrology, Brighton, Mich., introduces Inspect-X 5.0, which supports a new 16M-pixel flat panel detector that enables four times better resolution for CT scans.
