At some point, I am sure that most of us have fantasized about being the stereotypical mad scientist who spends his days in a lab filled with chemical experiments and electricity arcing from one ...

The 2023 Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition was won by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty for their image "Andromeda, Unexpected," featuring a ...

Plasma cutters have become one of the most useful tools in garages and home workshops, especially for anyone who works on ...

Giant unstable loops of plasma arcing from the surface of the sun may be the root of explosive solar flares and other solar eruptions, researchers find. Astronomers have long noticed enormous arches ...

The first steps have now been completed to begin the re-assembly of FF-1 (dense plasma focus fusion experimental fusion reactor). Lawrenceville Plasma Physics’s (LPP) lab team has successfully joined ...

Plasma cutting – occasionally referred to as ‘plasma arc cutting’ – is a melting process that sees a high-temperature ionized gas jet used to melt the material and expel it from a cut. This ionized ...

THIS is the fourth in the series of articles on welding safety. The central theme of these articles has been to emphasize that welding, if mastered and performed safely, is a rewarding profession, and ...

For consumable parts a typical shielded plasma torch has an electrode, a nozzle, and a shield. Many other torches are unshielded with an exposed nozzle and an electrode. The two consumable parts in ...

Metals recovery technology supplier Tetronics International, based in the U.K., has announced that its plasma arc technology, supplied to Duesmann & Hensel Recycling's Frankfurt facility, has gone ...