Nitrogen trifluoride, also known as NF3, is a binary compound consisting of nitrogen and fluorine. Generally delivered in high pressure cylinders, this toxic, colourless, non-flammable, corrosive gas is used in a variety of applications.
Oxygen is one of the most important, life-saving gases used in medicine today. It has been used in medicine since the 1800s and has come a long way in terms of application and delivery systems....
The freezing of food and beverages can be achieved either by mechanical or cryogenic freezing. But understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these methods is paramount; both offer fundamentally different results.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) has a great deal of potential as a refrigerant. Some argue that the use of CO2 in passenger vehicle air conditioning alone could help reduce harmful CO2 emissions worldwide and may actually...
The ‘Internet of Things’ is a relatively new term that has come to signify a specific set of developments in our increasingly digitalised society.
Consisting of a single electron orbiting a single proton, hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe – but this simple element can release almost three-times more energy than natural gas. The fact that hydrogen...
