Soft fusion

The transuranium elements up to 106 were synthesized by accelerating neutrons or very light nuclei into other actinides including costly, unstable artificial elements such as californium (98). In 1973, Yuri Oganessian (1933- ) and Alexander G. Demin in Dubna developed the concept of soft fusion or cold fusion (not to be confused with the unrelated cold fusion debacle of 1989) which they successfully... 

Jin L, Majerus J, Oliveira A, et al. Detection of fusion gene transcripts in fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections of soft-tissue sarcomas after laser capture microdissection and RT-PCR. Diagn. Mol. Pathol. 2003 12 224-230. 

Figure 9. Plot of heat of fusion vs. weight fraction of hard segment for each random copolymer, assuming k > 1 or k > 6, where k is the number of diisocyanate (hard-segment) units betwen two consecutive macrodiol (soft-segment) units. (Peebles (30) calculation of hard, block-length distribution in segmented polyurethane block copolymer is applied.)...

DSC(l) data were obtained with a Model DSC20 apparatus (Shimadzu Co., Ltd.) at Yoshida laboratory, The University of Tokyo. A sealed cell made of soft stainless steel was used as the sample cell K 1. The extrapolated decomposition temperature 1" was taken as the decomposition start temperature (Tdsc or Tdta). In DSC(l),the peak area was obtained by weighing the peak-area cutout. The apparatus constant, k, which is used to determine the DSC decomposition heat (Qdsc(1)) from the peak area, was determined by obtaining the values of heat of fusion for potassium nitrate, indium, tin, and potassium perchlorate. 

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