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Proven Principle. On the same day, Esso Petroleum of Great Britain held an oil disposal demonstration at its Fawley refinery near Southampton. Technicians poured a barrel of crude oil on a pond, then covered the slick with a shredded polyurethane foam developed by J. Bibby & Sons of Liverpool. The foam quickly turned black as it absorbed the oil. The oil-soaked foam was then simply trapped and towed ashore, where Esso showed how the oil could be pressed out for reuse...
This week, to celebrate its tenth birth day, TEE puts its plush new Rembrandt onto the daily run between Amsterdam and Munich. Passengers relax in form-hugging, foam-rubber seats while a blurred landscape speeds past the vast picture windows...
...wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...
...Wall of Foam. For most U.S. police, the only such weapon now available is the old-fashioned billy club-and the trouble is that many policemen are surprisingly unskilled...
...higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including the astronauts' own space suits and the craft's insulating foam-are being redesigned using materials that are more fire-resistant...