The use of gun-cotton proper (trinitrocellulose) could not be thought of, owing to the brisant action of this body, but it was found that collodion-wool (dinitrocellulose, soluble gun-cotton), which was less brisant, could be converted into a nearly homogeneous mass which satisfied many of the requirements of a smoke-free powder, but it was still so brisant when used alone as to produce too high gas pressures and too irregular initial velocities.

The fluorescent dye-rhodamine-123 encapsulating CREKA-peptide modified nanoemulsion system was prepared by microfluidization as described earlier.

Singapore’s young workers have been called the strawberry generation: easily bruised by work and life.

You know no doubt that most criminals at some time or other feel an irresistible need of confessing—of making a clean breast of it to somebody—to anybody.