It's not the laser beam itself, but more that the laser excites a material in such a way that the material can no longer be transmissive to a second beam (i.e. becomes opaque to the second wavelength).
Assuming this happens fast it could be amazing for optical switches.
When we're talking about molecules, millions is usually an extreme understatement. PPB (parts per billion) is a common measure for contaminants.
But PPB is still an enormous quantity. Remember Avogadro's number (used to relate count to grams) is on the 10^23 scale (aka thousands of billions of trillions). Even 999 million is a drop in the ocean there.
EDIT: The journal abstract lists the leached nanoparticles as 10^9 (billions) per mL, and the uptake by human-derived intestine cells as 100 micrograms/mL. So yeah this is coverage by a journalist who can't math.
Yep they work great and they're ubiquitous. Xbox360 gamepad might be cheaper than one from a newer console model. I finished Elden Ring with one 100% on Linux.
Yeah but the spelling 'normally' would have been updated to match English pronunciation. That's what happens in most languages. As I understand there were two issues:
Some dictionary writers (ca. late 1400s IIRC) wanted spellings that seemed fancier like French and Latin, which is why e.g. the silent B in debt was added 'artificially'.
The printing press was invented right in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift so old spellings got "locked in" even though spoken English continued to change significantly for a long time afterward.
A surprising number of plastic/rubber components used in cheap electronics accessories will offgas. You notice an odd smell, that's literally petrochemicals entering your nostrils by the millions. Some of them can mimic biomolecules like hormones. I'm not saying they're necessarily all harmful but there needs to be a lot more research.
I'm nearly at the end of Duolingo's German content and spelling has mostly been quite easy (as a native English speaker). You want a spelling challenge, try French.
Huh? That seems normal for any organization that accepts donations. Someone has to coordinate how they track and interface with donors (e.g. mailers, webpage, etc) and how they process the donated funds (cheque, bank transfer, etc). In fact that usually takes a modest team of people to plan and deliver, and one of them has to be in charge, hence the Director.
Note, "gift" is commonly a synonym for donation here.
For SR3, just do it, it's a really well-made game and runs great and you don't need any prior knowledge except to know that it's kind of a GTA parody. I don't think SR1 was even ported to PC, and SR2 is pretty buggy and unstable on modern machines (though fun aside from that). SR4 supposed to be pretty great (same engine as 3 I think) but I haven't played it.
FH4 has a healthy playerbase and I'm pretty confident it'll still be worth playing over the next year. However beyond that as the community slowly dwindles it will eventually become less fun with fewer people doing Forzathons or seasonal co-ops or using the auctions, even if the servers are still running.
KSP has what players call "the Kraken" where the game engine sometimes bugs out and causes your vehicle to spin out of control and/or explode for no apparent reason. It happens more with really big vessels and complex missions. But yeah it's not bug-free and you'll want to quicksave often so you don't lose hours of work.
If you like the cheesy story, Saints Row the Third is wacky awesome fun. It's not 100 hours so you'd have to replay it, but you could do that co-op with a couple of friends. There's nothing quite like bailing out of your fighter jet wearing a hotdog costume and then blowing up half a city block with your rocket launcher on the way down.
Vampire Survivors is a good candidate too, regularly introducing new characters and weapon combos and weird secrets for pretty non-stop dopamine. Maybe you could get 100 hours with the expansions but that seems like a stretch.
Honorable mention to Forza Horizon 4, it's everything Burnout Paradise wished it could be and had a smile on my face nearly the entire time. Although there were a few spots where I set the difficulty too high and/or didn't tune up my car and lost races, so that was less fun, but kind of my own fault. Well over 100 hours on this one, but the base game has only come down to $12 and won't be sold after today!
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Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?