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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Substitutes: Liquid crystals made from organic compounds are used in visual displays as substitutes for light-emitting diodes.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Liquid crystals are large molecules that orient themselves spontaneously within a liquid--much the way toothpicks tend to orient themselves parallel to one another when you pour them into box.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Since liquid crystals are not to touch the skin, would not a similar effect be achievable by imbedding the crystals in an extremely thin plastic and applying that?
The liquid crystals in the display occupy a thin layer between transparent electrodes and two polarizing plastic sheets.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by an Austrian botanist named Friedrich Reinitizer.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The liquid crystals used in an LCD display are sensitive to electric fields so that their orientations and their optical properties can be affected electronically.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Liquid crystals are currently being used in screens for computers, along with various other electronic uses.
What exactly are the liquid crystals in LCD monitors?
Liquid crystals move according to the difference in voltage between the Color Filter Glass and the TFT Glass.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Liquid crystals can be loaded into a 5um gap capillary fill liquid crystal cell and studied at precisely controlled temperature while making electrical measurements or controlling electrical field across the sample.
Some liquid crystals are made of a layered structure; if the spacing of the layers is nearly the same as the wavelength of lighth, then these materials reflect some wavelengths more strongly than others, and hence they appear colored.
It is also involved in modelling and simulation studies of liquid crystals and numerical and analytical methods for magnetohydrodynamic and related coupled problems.
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