Within our solar system Earth is the only planet that has both plate tectonics and water. These may not be intuitively linked, as the amount of water is extremely small (a few hundred μg g −1) ...

Fluids play a crucial role in industrial processes like cooling, heating, and mixing. Traditionally, most industries would utilize Newtonian fluids—which have a constant viscosity—for such processes.

Editor’s note: The Basics department this month is an excerpt from the ISA book Flow of Industrial Fluids – Theory and Equations by Raymond Mulley. Some material in this section may seem self-evident ...