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Seven feet under the keel

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Phraseologism: Seven feet under the keel.

Meaning: Good luck.

Origin: Initially - in the language of sailors - this is a wish that the ship does not run aground.

Random phraseology:

In our business, the most important thing is to wash off on time.

Meaning:

Used as a commentary on an apparently unsuccessful undertaking that needs to be completed as soon as possible (jokingly).

Origin:

The original source is one of the credits for the Soviet film of the silent film era "The Feast of St. Jorgen" (1930). The authors of the titles are Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942), authors of the novels The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf. In the original: "The main thing in the profession of a thief, as in the profession of a saint, of course, is to hit the road in time."

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An international team of scientists from the United States, Ireland and Singapore, led by Professor Christian A. Nijhuis of the National University of Singapore, has for the first time been able to create efficient molecular rectifier diodes.

Diodes are electronic elements that have different conductivity depending on the direction in which current flows through them. Rectifier diodes convert AC to DC; their main characteristic is the rectification factor K, equal to the ratio of the values of the alternating voltage at the input and the rectified voltage at the output.

For modern industrial silicon rectifier diodes, K values vary from 105 to 108. However, for molecular diodes - molecular-scale elements that could theoretically be used to create superminiature electronic devices - this figure has so far been, at best, 103, which is clearly not enough.

Now Nijuys and his colleagues have succeeded in creating a molecular diode with a rectification factor of 6.3x105. These are macroscale tunnel transitions based on a single layer of molecular diodes. The number of molecules conducting current in these junctions varies with bias polarity, thereby multiplying the internal rectification factor of an individual molecule by three orders of magnitude.

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