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  • Everybody was being tossed around, the lights flickered, and most of the bench-top equipment vibrated off the tables.

    365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • There are many bench-top experiments in fusion going on around the world, and at least one relatively low-tech design which seems to resemble the device Press TV is describing, and which has been shown to be a viable neutron source.

    Iran claims to have built fusion reactor 2011

  • Five of the six guests were convinced that dramatic advances in a number of areas, including chemistry, optics, and computing, would be harnessed into an affordable bench-top instrument for ultrarapid DNA sequencing in the near future.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • Everybody was being tossed around, the lights flickered, and most of the bench-top equipment vibrated off the tables.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • He has proposed a relatively simple bench-top experiment using lasers, prisms, splitters, fiber-optic cables and other gizmos to first see if he can detect "non-local" signaling between entangled photons.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Zoe Brain 2007

  • He has proposed a relatively simple bench-top experiment using lasers, prisms, splitters, fiber-optic cables and other gizmos to first see if he can detect "non-local" signaling between entangled photons.

    Financing Time Travel Zoe Brain 2007

  • That's right, after eight full months without any bench-top research, I finally extracted some DNA from my mutant Drosophila melanogaster strain.

    I Love the Smell of Phenol in the Morning! Carlo Artieri 2006

  • To visualize changes in the enzyme, I used radioactivity, and routinely did bench-top experiments in the open laboratory involving 25 millicuries of radioactive phosphate or sulfate.

    H. Robert Horvitz - Autobiography 2003

  • Think of it, Dave said: working with two or three other students on a bench-top experiment, one might just find the missing dark mass and close the universe!

    Eric A. Cornell - Autobiography 2002

  • It has been common in school benches to affix it to a board, which rises considerably above the top of the bench, Fig. 169, but a better plan is to have the top of it no higher than the bench-top, Fig. 166.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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