Taking a McIntosh to market.Beware of biting into an apple that has a hollow core. This fall, a miniature computer disguised as an apple will travel from a Michigan orchard, where it will be picked from a tree, all the way to a grocery shopper's bag. Along every step of its way, it'll record all the shocks and bangs that it suffers. The "apple" will also register temperature and humidity humidity, moisture content of the atmosphere, a primary element of climate. Humidity measurements include absolute humidity, the mass of water vapor per unit volume of natural air; relative humidity (usually meant when the term humidity changes. This computer's bruising bruising discoloration and actual hemorrhage at the site of injury, and a serious disadvantage in the meat trade. In the first 12 hours after injury the bruise is bright red, at 24 hours it is dark red, at 24 to 36 hours it loses its firm consistency and becomes watery and at 3 or ordeal ordeal, ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to should give researchers at Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. in Lansing a better picture of when and how fruit is damaged on its way to the grocery shelf (SN: 5/12/84, p. 300). Agricultural engineer Bernie Tennes of the U.S. Department of Agriculture heads the project. |
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