[Editors] from basic research to everyday products.

[Elizabeth Thomson]

Hello again,

Thought this group might be able to help me on another project I'm 
working on. Can you give me some examples of how basic research on 
the physical sciences at MIT has led to an everday product? Products 
from the past...or recent past....are welcome. I'm not interested in 
MEDICAL products/advances for this one....have several of those.

One example that occurred to me: the Plasma Science and Fusion 
Center's plasmatron, a little device that can cut emissions from cars 
and trucks....and is based on basic physics research toward a new 
energy source, nuclear fusion.

If you could get back to me within the next two hours, that would be 
just ducky!

Many thanks in advance,
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

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