Mysteries of Science Index

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February 22, 2012

	Lubricant Causes Quality Problems
	Lightning Stikes in the Chemistry Lab
	Problems With Viscosity and the Moon
	Pay Clerk Production Woes
	Danger on the Adhesive Coating Line
	Cloudy Copper Plating Bath
	RCA TV Soldering Mystery
	Innovative Impromptu Air Conditioning
	Epoxy Resin and the Red Gas Cloud
	Brighter Chrome on the Third Shift
	Mysterious Drop In Production Yield
	The Puzzling Z-Axis Adhesive
	Resistor Values off the Mark
	Hot Chip Scale Package
	Mysterious Flickering Lights
	Cyanide Leak and Sleepy Chemists
	Fireworks on the Plating Line
	The Technician with the Hot Pockets
	The Overheated Professor
	Sealed Membrane Switch Mystery
	Plating Quality Declines On Friday
	Why Did the Old Reactor Work Best?
	The 30 Second Fix
	Flying Saucer Over The Factory
	Headaches at the Factory
	The Epoxy Mixing Mix-up
	Why Is IBM Underfill Blue?
	Mystery of the Vanishing Foam
	Corrupted Magnetic Tracking System
	The Static Charge Overload
	The Graying White Plastic
	Olympic Balloon Fiasco
	Energy Savings Ran Up the Bill
	Turning Wood Into Plastic
	The Suspicious Bicycle
	Odd Measurements On Fridays
	The Disappearing Ink
	The Plant Manager Valve
	Trapped in the Vacuum Chamber
	Case of the Falling Floor

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Total: 62

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Mysteries of Science by Dr. Ken Gilleo
Dr. Gilleo is a chemist, inventor and general problem solver. Ken has been tracking industrial forensics and collecting case histories for decades. These cases are taken from the vast world of industry and commercial enterprise.

Check out Dr. Gilleo's eBook, 100 Mysteries Solved by Science. We hope you enjoy these case histories. You need not be an engineer or scientist to understand the problems and appreciate the solutions.

Lubricant Causes Quality Problems

Cylinder locks coated with a light oil spray started to stick. Did a change in the process affect quality, and if so how?

Lightning Stikes in the Chemistry Lab

As a lightning bolt hit near a lab, a blue spark jumped from a radio in the lab room to a student. Was the spark lightning?

Problems With Viscosity and the Moon

At an English shampoo factory near the sea, they were having problems with the shampoo viscosity. What was the cause?

Pay Clerk Production Woes

A company was having quality control problems. Friday morning was when the problems happened, but why just on Fridays?

Danger on the Adhesive Coating Line

A plant worker adjusting rollers on an adhesive line suddenly began to act strangely. What caused the worker's spaced out appearance?

Cloudy Copper Plating Bath

At a circuit shop near Los Angeles there was trouble with the copper plating line. Was an impurity getting in the tank and how?

RCA TV Soldering Mystery

Decades ago RCA had a soldering problem. One day nearly half of the assemblies had to be reworked, but nothing seemed amiss at the board shop. What was the cause?

Innovative Impromptu Air Conditioning

One July the chiller at an old factory was using more electricity than normal. What was causing the chiller to use more electricity?

Epoxy Resin and the Red Gas Cloud

A chemist mixed epoxy and a catalyst that caused an overheated reaction producing a reddish gas cloud. What caused this reaction?

Brighter Chrome on the Third Shift

Why was one third shift operator at a plating shop producing parts with a superior chrome finish compared to the other two shifts?

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