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How about using a laser to cut cheese?


How about using a laser to cut cheese? Engineers at the University of Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States
Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee
 have applied for a patent for a cold laser machining technique, primarily used in laser eye surgery, which can be used to cut cheddar Cheddar, village, Somerset, SW England. It is chiefly a tourist center. Limestone is quarried, and strawberries are grown. Nearby Cheddar Gorge towers c.400 ft (120 m) high, with imposing limestone cliffs and numerous caves from which relics of prehistoric man have . The technique would be a clean, precise and cost-effective cost-effective,
n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate.
 way to cut cheese commercially, especially into very thin slices. The fast-food industry wants cheese that is nicely shaped, but cut very thin so that customers consume less fat. But when you cut cheese thinner and thinner, mechanical systems encounter difficulties in getting the cut right. The cheese tears or sticks to the blade. This process does not have those problems. Contact: Xiaochun Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 353 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1513 University Ave AVE Avenue
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., Madison, WI 53706. Phone: 608-262-6142. Email: xcli@engr.wisc.edu.
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Publication:Emerging Food R&D Report
Date:Apr 1, 2005
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