Opportunities for Academic Research in a Low-Gravity Environment.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Facilities and Programs for Research -- Chapter 2A Very High Resolution Phase Transition Experiments at Low Temperatures in Low Gravity -- Chapter 2B Low-Gravity Experiments In Critical Phenomena -- Chapter 2C Comments on Critical Phenomena -- Chapter 3A Gravity, Microgravity, and the Approach to Picogravity -- Chapter 3B Comments on Gravitation -- Chapter 4A Opportunity for Academic Research in a Low-Gravity Environment: Crystal Growth -- Chapter 4B Comments on Crystal Growth -- Chapter 5A Opportunities for Metals and Alloys Research in a Low-Gravity Environment -- Chapter 5B Comments on Metals and Alloys -- Chapter 6A Research on Containerless Melts in Space -- Chapter 6B Comments on Containerless Processing -- Chapter 7A Combustion Studies In Low Gravity -- Chapter 7B Comments on Combustion -- Chapter 8A Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Physics in a Low-Gravity Environment -- Chapter 8B Electrodynamic Buoyancy Flows as Models of Planetary and Stellar Circulations. -- Chapter 8C Comments on Fluid Dynamics -- Appendix A. Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Appendix B. Microgravity Science and Applications: Experiment Apparatus -- Author Index.

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