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• USS J.R.Y. Blakely (DE-140)
  ...E-143)]] was torpedoed and sunk. ''J, R. Y. Blakely'' made several [[depth charge]] attacks before retiring to protect Wake Island. She returned to New York ...nd ''J. R. Y. Blakely'' began to search out a contact. Fessenden's [[depth charge]] attack sank the submarine, U-1062, which was carrying valuable cargo for
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...Hedgehog (weapon)|hedgehog]]" projectile patterns and one standard [[depth charge]] pattern on a target later evaluated as a school of fish. ...out sweeps in scouting line formation. The ships formed around two escort carriers, ''Bogue'' and {{USS|Card|CVE-13|2}}, the former patrolling to the south, t
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  ...20 mm, 2 × depth charge tracks, 8 × depth charge projectors, 1 × depth charge projector (hedge hog type) ...in port until the 29th when she departed [[Leyte]] to screen the aircraft carriers of Task Group (TG) 77.1 during their passage to [[Korea]].
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• Nag missile
  ...a flight speed of 230 metres per second, is armed with a 8kg tandem shaped-charge warhead, has a rocket motor using nitramine-based smokeless extruded double ...5 tonnes in full combat load and is capable of moving 7 km/h in water. The carriers are capable of carrying 12 missiles with 8 in ready-to-fire mode. The NAMIC
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• 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun
  ...ordered as [[Lexington class aircraft carrier|''Lexington''-class aircraft carriers]], none of them were completed with the [[barbettes|barbette]] necessary to ...bore, or 50 calibers from [[breechface]] to [[muzzle]]. With a full powder charge of {{convert|648|lb|kg}}, the guns were capable of firing a {{convert|2240|
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• 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun
  The first model of this gun used a 33 kg (72 pound) powder charge to fire 20-cm (7.874-inch) projectiles weighing 110 kg (242 pound) at a vel Second model guns used a 34 kg (74 pounds) powder charge to fire 8-inch (203.2 mm) projectiles weighing 126 kg (277 pounds) at a vel
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• 5"/25 caliber gun (United States)
  ...jectile handled as a single assembled unit) with a 9.6-pound (4.4 kg) charge of [[smokeless powder]] to give a 54-pound (24 kg) projectile a veloci *{{cite book|title=U.S. Aircraft Carriers|author=Friedman, Norman|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1983|id=ISBN 0
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  ...board) side of the [[Essex class aircraft carrier|''Essex''-class aircraft carriers]].<ref name="NavOrdAndGunV1"/> ...ly developed for installation in the walkways on the port side of aircraft carriers. It is also occasionally found on auxiliary vessels.<ref name="NavOrdAndGun
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• 5"/51 caliber gun
  ...ric tons. Some Marks included a tapered liner. A 24.5-pound (11&nbsp;kg) charge of [[smokeless powder]] gave a 50-pound (23&nbsp;kg) projectile a velocity * {{cite book| title=U.S. Aircraft Carriers |author=Friedman, Norman |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1983 |id=IS
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...'']] on 9 April 1943 found himself in an ideal position to attack aircraft carriers [[Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyo|''Hiyo'']], [[Japanese aircraft carrier Ju ...waited to see if Adm. [[William H. P. Blandy|William "Spike" Blandy]] (in charge of BuOrd) might manage to find a fix for it.<ref>Blair, p.427.</ref>
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• QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V naval gun
  * '''QF Mark IV''': used a two part (charge and shell) ammunition system. Designed specifically for use by small warshi ...ced as the planned [[Malta class aircraft carrier|''Malta'' class aircraft carriers]] they would have been used on were never built.
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• Type 91 torpedo
  Captain Fumio Aiko was assigned in charge of promoting the development project of Type 91 aerial torpedo since 1931. ...r seen. The US Navy also decided to construct 8 super class fleet aircraft carriers, which no one could ever imagine. By the Vinson-Trammell Act in 1934 and [[
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• Semimetal
  ...ould be called 'double-metals' rather than semimetals. However, the charge carriers typically occur in much smaller numbers than in a real metal. In this respe As semimetals have fewer charge carriers than metals, they typically have lower [[electrical conductivity|electrical
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• Biopolymer
  ...water-retaining and moisturizing properties. Using chitin and chitosan as carriers, a water-soluble prodrug has been synthesized. Modified chitosans have been Chitin derivatives can also be used as drug carriers, and a report of the use of chitin in absorbable sutures shows that chitins
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• Nanocellulose
  ...eported fibril widhts of 3-5&nbsp;nm for TEMPO-oxidized cellulose having a charge density of 1.5 meq./g.<ref name="Fukuzumi2009"/> ...placement for today’s carbohydrate additives used as thickeners, flavour carriers and suspension stabilizers in a wide variety of food products and is useful
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• Nanofluidic Circuitry
  ...69 | issue = | pages=4627–4633 }}</ref> They observed that the surface charge at the wall of nano-pipet induced a non-neutral electrical potential within ...f> As an analogy to semiconductor devices, the mechanism to control charge carriers transport in electronic devices was established in the area of nanofluidic
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• Metallic bond
  ...oduced by doping the crystal with a suitable impurity the resulting charge carriers are as mobile as in a metal, though far fewer in number. Even without dopin ...they decrease across the period due to increase in the [[effective nuclear charge]] which is not offset by the increased number of [[valence electrons]]. The
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• Right to know
  ...safety committee, employer safety and health personnel, OR-OSHA insurance carriers, fire departments, or other outside agencies. ...ilable on request from the Fire Marshal’s Office and is normally free of charge unless unusually large quantities of data are involved.
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• Phosphonate
  ...ted with bone formation and calcium metabolism. Furthermore they serve as carriers for radionuclides in bone cancer treatments (see [[Samarium-153-ethylene di ...oethylphosphonic acid, because they are much larger, carry a high negative charge and are complexed with metals. Biodegradation tests with sludge from munici
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• Hemoglobin
  ...or=Linberg R, Conover CD, Shum KL, Shorr RG |title=Hemoglobin based oxygen carriers: how much methemoglobin is too much? |journal=Artif Cells Blood Substit Imm ...s not surprising: singlet oxygen (possibility #1) and large separations of charge (possibility #3) are both unfavorably high-energy states. Iron's shift to a
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