Mellon

//ˈmɛlɒn//

"Mellon" in a Sentence (6 examples)

The would-be junior at Carnegie Mellon says that she’s always been “five years ahead” in knowing what she wanted to do.

One of the challenges to designing prosthetics, or exoskeletons for the disabled, is that everyone is different. Technology designed to help a person walk or get around doesn't work very well when it is built to be one-size-fits-all. But scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out a quick, easy way to make each prosthetic different.

A robot being developed at Carnegie Mellon University has evolved into a multi-legged modular mechanical snake, able to move over rugged surfaces and explore the surroundings. Scientists say such machines could someday help in search and rescue operations.

Until it was taken down, AlphaBay was the largest of an estimated 30 to 50 illegal marketplaces that operated on the dark Web, generating twice as much revenue as Silk Road, said Nicolas Christin, a computer science professor and dark Web expert at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Mellon (C₁₈N₁₃; Liebig).— This anomalous compound was originally supposed by Liebig to contain C₆N₄, but he has recently repeated and varied his experiments upon it, and has altered its formula as above.

It sublimes on heating and decomposes into mellon and NH₃.

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