RMS Titanic

The Jason Project www.jasonproject.org. Homeschoolers can register to follow Dr. Robert Ballard—who discovered the RMS Titanic—and his crew on their deep sea expeditions. The project includes print curricula, live satellite broadcasts and video supplements. 

Green, iron-rich structures called rusticles growing from the sunken hull of RMS Titanic are gradually destro5ung what remains of the ship. Rusticles contain colonies of metallophilic bacteria the structures are composed externally of lepidocrocite, y-Fe(0)0H, and internally of goethite, a-Fe(0)0H. The rate at which the bacteria are converting the ship s hull into rusticles is alarming and the phenomenon is a topic of current research. 

The RMS Titanic was a splendid British ocean liner which sank on her maiden voyage on the night of the 14-15 April 1912 after a collision with an iceberg in the northern Atlantic. Out of the 2200 passengers on board, 1500 died many of these because there were too few lifeboats. Subsequently, more stringent safety rules and iceberg warning systems were adopted. 

Haverin, C. B. (2012). The short life and tragic end of RMS Titanic. U.S. Coast. Retrieved from http //bit.ly/133fOAO. 

When considering the water-side corrosion of steel in marine boilers, both the elevated-temperature and ambient-temperature cases should be considered, since the latter is important during shutdown periods. Boiler-feedwater treatment is an important element of minimizing corrosion damage. On the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic, for... 

In the area of sea transportation, over the years there have been many accidents and other safety-related problems. For example, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a passenger liner owned by a British shipping company, in 1912 resulted in 1,517 onboard fatalities [8]. Safety in the area of sea transportation has improved quite significantly over the years, but it is still an important issue. 

An aerosol is a colloidal dispersion of liquid droplets in a vapor. Aerosols can be used to make oxide powders in a variety of ways. For example, an aqueous sol can be sprayed into alcohol, where the aerosol droplets gel to produce spheres [110]. Subsequent firing produces perfect dense oxide spheres whose size depends on the concentration of the initial sol. Schwartz et al. [4] prepared powders of lead lanthanum zirconate titanate by spraying a salt solution into ammonium hydroxide and then spray-dried the resulting powder to produce uniform spheres 0.5-2/rm in diameter. In such complex compositions, aerosols are advantageous, because each droplet is a small reaction vessel, and heterogeneity cannot occur on a scale larger than the size of the droplet. 

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