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Green Chemistry A new class of solvents with key properties that can be rapidly changed by the introduction of a common gas could provide a more environmentally friendly way of producing specialty chemicals. The findings are the result of work by a research team from Tech and Queen's University in Canada. Team members Charles Liotta, Tech vice provost for research and graduate studies, and Charles Eckert, director of Tech's Specialty Separations
Center, say the process could cut costs, reduce pollution and speed chemical processing. Eckert and Liotta were recipients of 2004 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards for their collaboration in developing benign tunable solvents that couple reaction and separation processes. Green chemistry refers to the development of chemical processes and products that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. This type of chemistry seeks to reduce and prevent pollution at its source.
three days later, Aug. 18. Mewborn, CIs 56, was president of Baker Audio, which provided sound equipment for the stadium. The Beatles saw him standing there and asked for help, they needed somebody. "The Beatles were at second base when they performed and second base in the round stadium was almost the center of the field, which meant that all sound going out came right back in. So they would hear a lot of echoes," Mewborn says. Mewborn started a sound revolu\
Paul, John, George, • Ringo — and Duke It was 40 years of yesterdays that Duke Mewborn helped the band to play. The British invasion in the summer of 1965 was heralded with so much screaming from delirious young women that the Beatles needed a little help from their friends. A hard day's night when the boys from Liverpool played Shea Stadium in New York, they couldn't hear each other play or sing over the twisting and shotrting." The Beatles were set to perform at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium'
Tech's new solvent process promises to move the chemical industry another step closer to a "green chemistry" that reduces pollutants and protects the natural environment.
Hon by putting a monitor in front of the stage so the Beatles could hear themselves. He monitored the sound from the press box. Paul, John, George and Ringo appreciated the work so much that they sent their manager to ask Mewborn to accompany them on the long and winding road as their soundman throughout the remainder of the American tour. Mewborn declined. He was going nowhere, man. He had a business to run. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life went on for Mewborn, a former Alumni Association trustee now retired from Baker Audio.
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