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Cobo Bubble Tea and Snow Ice

September 16, 2013 / Filed Under: Uncategorized

Roast Oolong Milk Tea with Nata

According to their Facebook page, Cobo is not your ordinary milk tea store. It serves unique and delicious milk teas and snow ice products that are sure to delight your taste buds. I agree.

I love the Roast Oolong Milk Tea above. That’s your usual milk tea which other milk tea shops might offer but there are also other products on the menu that are uniquely theirs.

Like this Green tea Snow Cream with Strawberry Burst and Chewy Wintermelon Jelly. I made the flavor combination but they all complemented each other. It was a hit the moment it landed on my tongue.

The American Flag

August 28, 2013 / Filed Under: Uncategorized

It is rare to go more than a few miles in a densely populated community without seeing a flag. Flags are symbols that can be flown proudly from a car, your roof or the top floor of an establishment. It draws attention and shows allegiance to your home, your company or your country. At the Olympics, each country will have its flag raised whenever a competitor from that country wins a medal.

Citizens of the United States love to fly the American flag whenever they can. Flags tend to be flown the most during any holiday dedicated to the troops or Independence Day. States will fly flags adorned with the state crest on government buildings to display their unique identity.

When a person dies, a flag is flown at half staff. This means that the flag is lifted halfway up the flagpole instead of all the way up. The flag itself may be put in a position where it will not sway in the breeze at it would during a typical day.

You can get Annin flags at FlagStoreUSA.com. It is a great way to show your support for your country by purchasing a flag through one of America’s oldest flag makers.

Metal Alloys That are Useful To The Industry

August 8, 2013 / Filed Under: Uncategorized

Alloys are created by combining a metal with one or more additives, and the final product’s melting and evaporation temperatures, electrical conductivity, magnetic properties and other characteristics can be different from those of the original constituents. These changed properties often make the alloy useful to science or industry.

An example is a substance called Wood’s metal. Named after Barnabas Wood, who discovered it in 1860, it is an alloy of bismuth, lead, tin and cadmium. Today, it is marketed under a number of brands. For instance, Industrial Metal Supply Company offers a brand of Wood’s metal Phoenix customers like called Cerrobend.

Much of this alloy’s usefulness comes from its melting point, which is only 158 degrees F. This is unusual for a metal, most of which have very high melting points, making them dangerous and difficult to manipulate when molten.

This low melting point makes Wood’s metal useful for heat-sensitive switches in fire protection systems. Sprinkler systems have a part made from the metal to prevent the system’s switch from tripping at normal temperatures. If the heat rises to 158 degrees, this part melts, the switch trips and the sprinklers come on.

A related function is as safety releases for cylinders of compressed gas. All gas cylinders sold for medical use in the U.K. must have an emergency seal made of Wood’s metal. In a fire, this will melt before the cylinder gets hot enough to explode, releasing pressure and eliminating the risk.