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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: Star Trek's 'tricorder' realized |
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Purdue
University researchers have demonstrated a portable instrument that they claim can identify any substance in less than a second, much like the 'tricorders' used by the crew of the Enterprise in the Star Trek series. The 20-pound, battery-powered unit combines a mass spectrometer with a desorption electrospray ionizati...read more |
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