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Snow Brings Green Machining To Laboratory
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No doubt that CO2 is problematic for global warming as our traditional consumption of fossil fuels increase.
Some time ago, liquid carbon dioxide was suggested for use as a dry cleaning reagent to replace petroleum products. What else could be better than recycling CO2, which is becoming rather abundant?
Today, a new technology has sprung out of research laboratories that look for a radioactive clean waste for machining nuclear materials. When the super-cool liquid CO2 is cooled after being compressed then streamed out as a jet out of an orifice causing the adiabatic effect (equilibrium between temperature, volume and pressure), Micronic solid particles of CO2 is hurled at the surface of the material being machined, thus, cooling it and lubricating it while pushing away the cut debris from the surface mechanically.
Not three simultaneous effects but four, because CO2 also prevents surface oxidation at the hot-spot of machine bit interaction and a potential surface treatment of forming metal carbides which are very tough surfaces.
This news is quite revolutionary and relieving, while promising us a brighter future.
While CO2 snow is very cool, this news is very hot.
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