Sono-Tek Announces First Quarter Results

... prior year period, a decrease of $156,000 or 10%. During the current quarter, sales of fluxer units, nozzles, Widetrack units, spray dryer units and solder recovery systems decreased when compared to the prior year. However, the Company did see an increase in sales of programmable XYZ precision coating u...

VA Announces $36 Million in Grants for Homeless Programs

... $14,755 One van Leeds, United Veterans Pittsfield of America, solder On $34,798 One van Lynn Volunteers of America of ...

Lead shot and sinkers: Weighty implications for fish and wildlife health

... to a new scientific report. Lead is a metal with no known beneficial role in biological systems, and its use in gasoline, paint, pesticides, and solder in food cans has nearly been eliminated. Although lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting in 1991, its use in ammunition for upland hunting, shooti...

Lead Exposure in Childhood Linked to Criminal Behavior Later

...use has been curtailed recently, in the past lead was widely used in paint, solder for water pipes and gasoline. The U.S. government banned lead paint and solder in 1978 and 1986, respectively. By 1996, leaded gasoline had been phased ou...

Flush Water Pipes to Reduce Lead Contamination Risk, Schools Told

...ately ordered all Ontario schools and daycares built before 1990 when lead solder for pipes was banned to run their taps daily for at least five minutes to ...ls, indicating that the lead is coming either from connecting pipes or lead solder inside the home. The city has been replacing about 3,500 lead pipes per yea...

Solder in Medical Dictionary

Solder

A solder is a fusible metal alloy with a melting point or melting range of 90 to 450 °C, used in a process called soldering where it is melted to join metallic surfaces. It is especially useful in electronics and plumbing.... Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined ...

Solder in Biological News

USGS news: August science picks

...ording to a new scientific report. Lead is a metal with no known beneficial role in biological systems, and its use in gasoline, paint, pesticides and solder in food cans has nearly been eliminated. Although lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting in 1991, its use in ammunition for upland hunting, shooti...

Solder in Biological Technology

Parallel 'nano-soldering' technique chosen for year's top-50 by Nanotech Briefs

... You should have so much patience to solder nanowires to nanoelectrodes. Talk about fine work. (A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.) That's why a new electroplating process that simultaneo...