A word of caution if you’re planning to try this cryocooler method for making liquid nitrogen: not only does it involve toxic and flammable gasses and pressures high enough to turn the works into a ...

A new technology based on the adiabatic cooling of swirling gas flow in a supersonic nozzle is effective in separating and processing natural gas components. A pilot test facility in Alberta, Canada, ...

IT is generally asserted in text-books on thermodynamics and the properties of gases that the Joule–Thomson effect demonstrates conclusively that real gases are non-ideal. This is indeed the case, but ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

William Thomson – better known as Lord Kelvin – was one of the pioneers of modern physics, developing what we now know as thermodynamics. He also estimated the age of the Earth, designed nautical ...