A ceramic watch? They’re tougher than you think says Shane C Kurup, who travelled to the Swiss town of Boncourt to see how ...

Geographically, Asia Pacific dominates the global silica market, driven by the presence of key end-use industries and rapid industrialization in countries like China and India. These countries have ...

It is available in different forms, such as quartz, sand, and silica gel, and is valued for its properties like high strength, hardness, and resistance to ... in the markets this week include: SILICON ...

Luxury watches take centre stage in The London Standard, with news, models and trends covered in new weekly section ...

India’s groundwater crisis demands urgent action, with over-extraction and pollution threatening water security, agriculture, ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) plans to resume work to remove a sample of highly radioactive material from ...

After its removal on Saturday, the debris was put in a metal enclosure designed ... of melted nuclear fuel and analyze its hardness, composition and other characteristics, to help devise ways to ...

At the very opposite end of the price scale is this eight-inch chef’s knife, from 110-year-old Sheffield cutlers, Viners. The selling point here is not the Rockwell hardness rating (it’s not ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. successfully removed a small amount of nuclear fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Thursday.

Introduced in the late 1970s, CZ is made through placing powdered zirconium oxide is inside a metal chamber and heating it ... imperfections. It has a hardness of 9.25 on the Moh’s scale, which makes ...