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Chemical Reaction Levitated by Sound

Posted July 16, 2013 8:58 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland have designed an acoustic levitator capable of controlling and mixing substances as they hover between two platforms.

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Re: Chemical Reaction Levitated by Sound

07/17/2013 12:28 PM

Been there / seen that / done that ... (essentially)... So, what's new...?

"Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals."

Discussed here a year or so ago ... YouTube.video

Why do such articles try to "spin" such events as "All-New-Never-Been-Done-Before", instead of introducing them as "An old technology revisited"...?

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