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His successor, Atoman, fared only slightly better. Spark Publications prefaced its 1946 comic with two pages of actual nuclear history, which reminded readers that atomic power could be used for both good and evil. The artists then unveiled a marked, yellow-caped hero whose story "comes right out of the headlines." Scientist Barry Dale worked at the Atomic Institute studying "the secret atomic formula." In a man-... 

I It must be noted that already a decade earlier the Dutchmen R van Troostwijk and J.R. Deim [7. Phys. 2,130 (1790)] showed that during spark discharge a (short-time) process of water electrolysis is achieved. These results were known by Nicholson and Carlisle when (using the then new Volta pile) they reported on long-time water electrolysis, but in their publication these results were not mentioned [R. de Levie, 7. Electroanal. Chem., 476, 92 (1999)]. 

American Petroleum Institute (API), Publication 2214. Spark Ignition of Hand Tools. Third Edition, API, Washington, D.C., 1989. 

Sparks, T. G., Brown, D. E. and Green, A. Assessing rotor/stator mixers for rapid chemical reactions using overall power characteristics (BHR conference series. Publication 18. Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd. London, 1995). 

The public discourse about hydropower in Switzerland went through a number of quite clearly demarcated phases. In the first phase, which started between 1880 and 1914, the electrical utopia based on white coal sparked a national consensus to develop alpine hydropower plants [10]. However, due to technical limitations, the majority of currently running large-scale hydropower plants in the Swiss Alps was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result of this rapid expansion, almost all major streams in the Alpine region are now impacted by hydropower plants and their operation [6]. 

The continued interest in dendritic materials as well as the related hyperbranched polymers has sparked the imagination of researchers in many different areas. The incredible increase in annual publications in this topic is best shown in the Figure and thus as the number on new building blocks and core molecules proliferate, the structural composition of precise and controlled design will grow to meet the imagination of molecular architects. This review series was initially conceived to cover the synthesis and supramolecular chemistry of dendritic or cascade supermolecules as well as their less perfect hyperbranched cousins. 

Willis, C. and Bada, J. (2000). The Spark of Life. Perseus Publications. 

Butler, D., Publication of human genomes sparks fresh sequence debate. Nature, 2001. 409(6822) 747-8. 

The future is by no means gloomy. Efficiency and sustainability are no longer restricted to academic circles. There is a drive to work on alternate energy sources and go "green." The changes in the public mindset are essentially mirrored by what has happened in the research realm, and have sparked the major revisions of the chapters in this book. 

The Prestige oil spill in 2002 was one of the worst oil spills to have affected the European coastline, sparking considerable levels of public concern and news media attention. Concerns over the handling of the crisis subsequently led to the... 

The successful demonstration of the fluorous biphasic concept for performing organometallic catalysis sparked extensive interest in the methodology and it has subsequently been applied to a wide variety of catalytic reactions, including hydrogenation [59], Heck and Suzuki couplings [60, 61] and polymerizations [62]. The publication of a special Symposium in print devoted to the subject [63] attests to the broad interest in this area. 

Junk, W. J., P. B. Bayley, and R. E. Sparks. 1989. The flood-pulse concept in the river-floodplain systems. Canadian Special Publication in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 106 110-127. 

Dingwell D. (1998) Recent experimental progress in the physical description of silicic magma relevant to explosive volcanism. In The Physics of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions. Geology Society of Lxtndon Special Publication 145 (eds. J. S. Gilbert and R. S. J. Sparks). Geological Society of Lxtndon, pp. 9-26. 

O.K.L. Lee and N.S. Lightfoot, Investigation of Flame Propagation Leading to the Knock Phenomenon in Spark Ignition Engine, Combustion Research Conference, 18/19 March 1986 (Publications Office, Harwell Laboratory, 1986) p. 134. 

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