Any high-voltage equipment depends on the integrity of its insulators. If there’s a significant voltage difference between two adjacent wires, they can create a breakdown in the air—a crackling spark that can destroy equipment and injure people. You avoid that by properly designing an insulator to keep the wires separate. But good design won’t help Read More
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Plasma Donor?
If you’re a physics nerd, when you hear the word “plasma” you think of a cloud of particles that have been ionized so that their protons and electrons are separate. If you’re a biology nerd, you think of the non-red-blood-cell components of blood. Donated blood plasma provides a useful option for treating patients with immune-compromised Read More
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