C03B 23/0258
Gravity bending involving applying local or additional heating, cooling or insulating means
Official title: {Gravity bending involving applying local or additional heating, cooling or insulating means}
C03B23/0258 (Gravity bending involving applying local or additional heating, cooling or insulating means) appears on 175 US grants and 145 published applications in this corpus.
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