Glass tube and rod are hollow or solid stock shapes of fused silicate materials. They are used in laboratory, sight glass, level gage, X-ray tube, optical, lamp, pharma, vacuum tube stem assembly, and ...

Automotive blade fuse sizes differ from glass tube sizes due to the shape of the fuse. Important performance specifications to consider when searching for fuse holders include normal operating current ...

Why not make your own? That’s exactly what [Dalibor] of the Czech Republic is up to, including blowing the glass tubes himself! He’s chosen the Z568 nixie tubes to copy, as they are his ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has constructed a fusion reactor from parts it 3D-printed and bought off the shelf. It fits on a kitchen table. It’s a simple-sounding machine—a glass tube coated ...

In those days, blowing your own glassware from glass tubes was fairly common and [Wheeler Scientific] has been doing a series on just how to do that. Even if you aren’t interested in building a ...

A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends ...

As the firework ascends through the air, the time-delay fuse continues to burn ... Most fireworks are launched from rows of steel tubes secured in troughs of sand. The tubes, or "mortars ...

How would you summarize your study for a lay audience? Our study introduces a new tool called FUSE (Functional Substitution Estimation) that helps scientists better understand how changes in genes ...

A fuse breaks the circuit if a fault in an appliance causes too much current to flow. This protects the wiring and the appliance from overheating, and possibly starting a fire, if something goes ...

Hold a black light next to the lamp in a dark room. New oil lamps are held together with glue, and new glue fluoresces in black light. Old lamps have glass parts that are fused, so they don't glow in ...