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Nail vanish

Published on
March 15, 1996
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Nail vanish: Rebecca Crawford of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Glasgow proves a point about the physics of pressure at the start of SET96, national science, engineering and technology week. For more derring-do from committed scientists see page 4.

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