Abstract: A magnetic shoe-drying apparatus is to improve shoe drying in a conventional laundry dryer. The apparatus is comprised of a magnet plat and at least one strap. The straps are to fasten a wet shoe onto the magnetic plate and the magnetic plate serves as a way to stick the shoe to the drum, inside a laundry, so that the shoe will not tumble when the dryer is in operation. Several pieces of the apparatus can be placed in the dryer and hence several wet shoes can be dried simultaneously. Wet clothes can also be dried together with wet shoes using this apparatus.

Abstract: A gas chromatograph includes a heating enclosure, an injection port extending through a wall of the enclosure, a capillary column within the heating enclosure and connected at a distal end thereof to a detector. The injection port is arranged to accept a carrier gas for gaseous components an analyte solution through the capillary column to the detector. An expansion chamber is located within the heating enclosure between the injection port and the capillary column. The expansion chamber is arranged such that it provides fluid communication between the injection port and the capillary column. First and second conduits are attached to the expansion chamber in fluid communication therewith. The first conduit is arranged to accept the carrier gas from outside the heating enclosure and the second conduit is arranged to vent excess vapor from the chamber to a point outside the heating enclosure.

Abstract: A method of remediating water or soil contaminated with contaminants including one or more halogenated, phenyl related biphenyl related, triazine related, and petroleum related compounds includes reacting the contaminated water or soil with an oxidant, and one or more metals in elemental or alloy form until essentially all of the contaminants has been decomposed and the water or soil is essentially free of the contaminants.