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After Dow recruiters arrived on campus in the early morning, around 200 student protestors gather in the Commerce Building to disrupt and block the recruiter's interviews. By mid-day the students became disorderly and pushed an interviewee, causing a police intervention. Around 200 more students arrived, and the police called for more officers.
A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure, sound, light). Though different contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity , they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives.
A high explosive violent reaction (HEVR) includes reactions ranging from a fast deflagration of the high explosive (HE), up to and including a detonation of the high explosive. The explosive wave may be subsonic or supersonic.
Shelter-in-place recommendations and evacuation orders have been lifted Monday after a fire at a Georgia industrial plant caused a chemical reaction that prompted around 17,000 people to evacuate ...
Slow motion videos are great with extreme sports and hilarious effects of pranks, but this technology can also turn plain chemical reactions into beautiful art. The project Beautiful Chemistry ...
In 2009, the University of California Regents approved a 32% (compounded for the year) tuition hike for the 2009–2010 school year. [23] The following years saw several large protests and actions across California in response to tuition hikes and other complaints against the UC administration, including 52 arrested on November 19, 2009 [24] and an attempt to block the local interstate on ...
In technical terms, the reaction zone (chemical combustion) is a self-driven shock wave where the reaction zone and the shock are coincident, and the chemical reaction is initiated by the compressive heating caused by the shock wave. The process is similar to ignition in a Diesel engine, but much more sudden and violent.
A 37-year-old acid attack victim from Tabriz, Iran. An acid attack, [1] also called acid throwing, vitriol attack, or vitriolage, is a form of violent assault [2] [3] [4] involving the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another "with the intention to disfigure, maim, torture, or kill". [5]