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2009 is the year of the 40th anniversary since the introduction of the first global flow cytometer based on fluorescence, the ICP 11.

Currently, the German biotechnology company Partec celebrates anniversary in Saxonia State Wackerbarth Vineyard Castle near Dresden. For the festive ceremony, the director Roland Göhde receive 100 guests from the scientific, economic and political.

The results of ballistic piston tests on methane and on n-hexane are described. In the case of methane the calculated reaction temperatures are 2500 to 3500[degrees]R. and maximum pressure range up to 100,000 pounds per square inch. The distribution of reaction products and the amount of reaction are correlated with the reaction conditions. For n-hexane the products are correlated with reaction conditions and in addition reaction rate coefficients were obtained. The decomposition reaction was found to be of apparent one half order with a low apparent activation energy. The range of reaction, temperatures investigated for n-hexane was 1600-2800[degrees]R. with maximum pressures up to 115,000 pounds per sqaure inch.

According to an article in Physics Today a team of researchers from Stanford University, UCLA and other 9 universities, laboratories and medical schools have collaborated in the creation of a microfluidic chip that demonstrates the possibility of a multistep organic synthesis on a single chip microfluidics.

The device produces 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose (FDG), a radiopharmaceutical tracer used in positron emission tomography.