Vodka can become a means of conveying messages
Last reviewed: 16.05.2018
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Canadian experts made an unusual discovery, as it turned out, vodka can serve as a transmitter of information at a distance. To conduct their experiments, specialists collected two simple installations, one of which was passed molecules of alcohol, and the second was sent by spraying. Scientists took only $ 100 to buy all the necessary materials. The system for transferring alcohol consisted of a fan, a nebulizer and a microcontroller.
The fan served as the communication channel, the liquid atomizer - the transmitter, and the microcontroller with the sensor caught "alcohol signals". In the process, scientists selected several samples, and as a result, it was found that alcohol can transmit information using binary code (information in the form of units and zeros).
In the course of the experiments, researchers were able to transmit several lines of the Canadian anthem for a distance of 4 meters. The microcontroller registered the molecules in the air and deciphered the information that they carried in themselves. In the laboratory, scientists sprayed with a fan a usual vodka, which includes ethyl alcohol, then the receiver took a signal and analyzed how the degree of concentration of alcohol molecules had changed.
According to Dr. Nariman Farsad, a professor at York University and head of a research project, he and his colleagues managed to send the world's first message with the help of molecules. One bit of information equals one atomization, and the absence of sputtering is equal to a zero bit.
This discovery experts called the molecular method of data transmission and consider this method of transmission of messages quite reliable. According to scientists, this way of communication is peculiar to insects and microorganisms. Experts hope that this method can be used in nanomedicine, but this is not their work, scientists intend to continue research in this direction.
Another amazing discovery in the scientific community was the invention of a liquid on which one can write using any solid object. This feature of the liquid substance is provided by its unusual physical properties, among which the ability not to freeze, even at very low temperatures (up to -1340C). Also, the liquid substance begins to crystallize and change color as soon as an object touches its surface, even the smallest, regardless of temperature.
Chemists explained that at room temperature, even with a light push of any solid object, the liquid begins to crystallize and change color, and at temperatures up to 1000 ° C reacts even to the touch of unicellular microorganisms. During the change in structure, the liquid from the red becomes yellow and loses its transparency.
In addition, a unique liquid when pressed on it by an object reacts not only by a change in color, but by a glow, if ultraviolet rays are aimed at it. Specialists noted that their invention could well find its application in biotechnology, medicine and in the development of modern computer systems.
In the plans of scientists for the near future to use a unique liquid to create a new type of solar cells.