Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineering Faculty, and researcher for the university's micro-gravity drop tower, has partnered with the United States Air Force to fund world-first research into the development of ZBLAN glass.

Professor Handong Liangfrom State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology Beijing and his group demonstrate that hydrogen fluoride is the prior releasing form of fluorine in long-term air-exposed coal under combustion and mild heating, which may change current understanding of the cause and prevailing mechanism of coal burning endemic fluorosis.

In the news release, China Shen Zhou Updates on Industry Dynamics, issued 07-Dec-2010 by China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc.

BEIJING, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- We inform that BRF's 20-F 2009 is already available at the site www.brasilfoods.com/ir. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090710/SPF002LOGO) SOURCE BRF Brasil Foods S.A.