what kind of materials and processes does thomas kinkade use?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade
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ethanol and oil\nwater and chloroform
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Saltpeter, or potassium nitrate, along with sulphur and charcoal, is used to make black powder, the first practical explosive.  It lead to the creation of firearms, which radically changed how wars were fought.
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i built a simple one using seveal pairs of stainless steel knives and caning jars. It wasnt feasable for practical use, but it was a good demonstration of fuel cell theory. I used solution of water and baking soda. \nThe stainless steel knives were used because stainless steel contains nickle which is a catylyst for the full cell process. (platnuium is much better catylyst, but much more expensuve.) I combined the cells in seriese and ran a curent over them until bubles apear on the knives and then removed the current.\nNext i put a led light over the leads of the cells, and then it lit for about 5 seconds as it absorbed the hydrogen and converted it to electricity.\nIt operated similar to a capisitor in this setup.
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If you are doing it in a laboratory setting, you can mix it with carbon and reduce it to the metal. You will need high temperatures, though.
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Paper-is basically soaked in water and chemicals and turned back into Pulp and then returned into the marketplace as recycled paper.\n\nPlastic-can be melted down and reused, or cleaned and bottled.\n\nGym shoes-Nike, even though Phil Knight is Satan, has a program where they take old gym shoes and convert them into playgrounds and basketball courts for underdeveloped neighborhoods...how they do it? i don't know, but, I'm sure it has something to do with his evil powers.\n\nthink green...obama in 08!
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What you are asking about is in the realm of surface science.  There are many analytical techniques and I will not try to go through all of them.  This is a good starting place: http://www.uksaf.org/tech/list.html
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http://www.jungletreasure.com/ceramic.htm
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wood ,paper, maple syrup ,asprin
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Fast drying type like cyanoacrylate type used to glue golf club ends to fiberclass shaft & flites on hunting arrows U can find it in stores that sell that kind of stuff.
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http://www.uyseg.org/industryanimated/teachers%20notes/extrusion_moulding.pdf\nThis file is good\n\nhttp://www.atplas.com/poly/ateva/moulding.htm\n\nExtrusion Moulding is a manufacturing process used to make pipes, hoses, drinking straws, curtain tracks, rods, and fibres\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrusion_Moulding
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Bleach, ammonia, paint thinner.
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Silica sand.\n\nhttp://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Household_Cyclopedia_of_General_Information/howtomak_cge.html
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There are several types of varnish, each with its uses.  Most today are using polyurethane, but that does not work well with exposure to the sun, it will break up, so don't use it on a piece of furniture that is either for outdoors or for close to a window.\n\nThere are standard varnishes for furniture offered by many companies.  They have one basic problem - they take too long to dry, as does polyurethane, and thus any bug that walks that way or any dust settlement will cause problems for you.  \n\nSpar varnishes are for outside, they were originally created for finishing the spars on wooden ships. \n\nThere are faster drying furniture varnishes, some water soluble and polyurethane comes in a water soluble type.  They will dry faster.\n\nThe basic problem with polyurethane is that not only does it take a while to dry, they are incredibly hard, so to recoat (if you need more than one coat, requires some sanding to scratch the surface.  \n\nAll varnishes will water spot.\n\nShellac is a good finish for furniture, it dries rapidly (20 minutes or so) and if you get runs in it, you can literally wipe them out and reshellac that spot.  It also will easily water spot.  If you buy varnish, buy white (but not pigmented tot he color white) and cut it about 1/3 with shellac thinner.  It will literally go on like water. \n\nI like sprayed laquer and the way that I refinish furniture (and you have to to bare wood) is to spray about 10-15 coats of laquer on it, each coat will take about 10 mintues to dry, and then polish it off.  Get gloss laquer and if you want a semigloss finish, rub it with the grain with 0000 steel wool.  \n\nVarnish is seldom used on new furniture.  Shellac was the finish up to 1925 or so and then came laquer.  The reason they stick with shellac and laquer is drying time and dealing with dust.
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Great site enrique. Thanks\nI've liked trading at American science & supply.\n\nI guess Cold wants some suggestions and sources for an exhibition he can do from scratch.\n\nYou can get dowels & styrofoam spheres at any Michaels, hobby lobby or walmart.  Many others will be getting the same supplies and making models of a few molecules.\n\nHowever, you can make the models enteresting and get extra points because this is a politically hot topic.  Model the sucrose and water molecules on one side.  Model ethanol and carbon dioxide on the other side.  Explain the process is done through fermentation and decorate the exhibit with ears of corn.\n\nSince I am fond of math more than electronics, I would make an electrical exhibition that displays boulean logic.  Two switches wired in parallel to a light is a logical OR.  Wired in series it is a logical AND.  A pair of 2-way switches creates a logical NAND.
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Ultrasonic cleaners might be the best solution.\n\nHere is an excerpt from the source listed below: \n\nAlthough a range of possible alternative products is available today, experience has shown that substitution of TRI is not easy and even not feasible for a number of specific cases, either for technical or economical reasons. For all cases, substitution of TRI needs a thorough evaluation of all process aspects. For this reason we intend to work with the authorities in order to prevent a blanket implementation of forced substitution, and allow sustainable and continued safe use of TRI. \n\nThe alternatives you will probably consider first are the chlorinated solvents perchloroethylene (PER) and methylene chloride (MC). They match closest the technical features of TRI, such as non-flammability, high solvency power, a wide range of material compatibility and excellent drying and recycling properties.\n\nBeside PER and MC, you have probably also heard about other alternatives such as aqueous (water-based) alkaline systems, flammable solvents (e.g. hydrocarbons or modified alcohol based formulations), supercritical CO2 or hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), etc.\n\nIt is impossible to say definitively which technology is best. That depends on your specific application, on what you are cleaning, which materials you want to remove, the cleanliness required, the variability of the parts cleaned, the throughput to be achieved, the cycle times, etc. \n\nFor example, for the cleaning of parts between two water-based manufacturing steps (e.g. galvanising), aqueous systems may be better, since parts are put into water phase again later and no energy-intensive drying step to remove the water is required. \n\nIf you need to have very clean and dry surfaces (for coating or surface hardening, for example) and if you have a variety of different metals or blind holes, narrow distances and very fine orifices or a lot of residual oil to clean, hydrocarbons or aqueous systems may not clean and dry well enough. In these cases, chlorinated solvents will offer most often the best solution as they are compatible with most materials, have a high cleaning power, are easy to dry, don't leave residual films and are easy to recycle with high quality by distillation. In addition, chlorinated solvents are today best suited to be used in modern closed systems with minimal losses. Their ecological performance has very much increased and, when used in well-operated metal cleaning systems, they outperform aqueous cleaning as long as drying is required. This has been shown by a Life Cycle Analysis carried out by Ecobilan. \n\nPER comes closest to TRI in technical performance and is often the first choice candidate as an alternative to TRI. However, it shows clear inherent technical differences, which need to be taken into consideration. On one side, PER offers a lower volatility and therefore is advantageous to minimise emissions in closed equipment. On the other side, PER has a lower solvency power and is therefore normally used at a higher cleaning temperature to achieve similar performance. This may raise concerns regarding the compatibility with specific metal working fluids and temperature-sensitive parts. \n\nMethylene chloride (MC) shows excellent cleaning properties already at low temperatures, favouring the cleaning of temperature sensitive parts. However, its high volatility makes emission control more difficult and requires special equipment.\n\nHydrofluorocarbons (HFC) and hydrofluorocarbon ethers (HFCE) are very expensive and show very limited solvency power. A thorough evaluation of the global warming potential is also required to choose the adequate product.
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Paper mache? Cut an opening and fill it with clay to form shapes for organelles??