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• Fallout shelter
  ...and beta particles, as well as gamma rays. Much of this highly radioactive material then falls to earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiat ...shielding can be accomplished with 10 times the amount of any quantity of material capable of cutting gamma ray effects in half. Shields that reduce gamma ray
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  * material and distribution management * clothing [http://www.qmfound.com/army_clothing_history.htm]
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• Soap
  ...[[fat|grease]] molecules. Although grease will normally adhere to skin or clothing, the soap molecules can form micelles which surround the grease particles a ...ur soap for lye for doneness. Lye, when not saponified is a highly caustic material. Rather, research proper Hot Process techniques and use a digital or analog
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• Arc Welding
  ...or semi-inert gas, known as a shielding gas, and/or an evaporating filler material. The process of arc welding is widely used because of its low capital and r ...lurgy)|flux]]) for the electrode, to stabilize the arc and shield the base material from impurities, continued to be developed.<ref name=Weman-26>Weman (2003),
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• Mercury (element)
  ...d scientific research applications, and in [[amalgam (dentistry)|amalgam]] material for [[dental restoration]]. It is used in lighting: electricity passed thro ...equently collected and properly disposed of. Cleaning porous surfaces and clothing is not effective at removing all traces of mercury and it is therefore advi
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• Plastic recycling
  ...process of [[recover]]ing scrap or waste [[plastics]] and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their ori ...ase boundary|phase boundaries]] cause structural weakness in the resulting material, meaning that [[polymer blend]]s are only useful in limited applications.
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• Aramid
  * flame-resistant [[clothing]] * heat protective clothing and [[helmet]]s
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• Paper
  '''Paper''' is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or for packaging. It is produce ...writing]] and [[printing]] upon, it is also widely used as a [[packaging]] material, in many [[cleaning]] products, in a number of industrial and construction
  21 KB (3,131 words) - 10:08, 20 September 2010
• D3o
  '''d3o''' (dee-three-oh) is a [[dilatant]] material developed by the [[United Kingdom|British]] chemical engineering company d3 ...rupt force, making it useful in [[Personal protective equipment|protective clothing]] in situations where the wearer may be exposed to [[blunt trauma]].
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• Mineral wool
  ...age:Rochwool pipe covering wh fire test.jpg|thumb|right|A rockwool [[pipe (material)|pipe]] covering applied to a steel pipe for a [[fire test]].]] ...10 [[micrometer (unit)|micrometer]]s. Mineral wool may contain a [[Binder (material)|binder]], often [[Starch#Starch_in_food|food grade starch]], and an [[Mine
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• Material
  ...hydrogen, air and water are all examples of materials. Sometimes the term "material" is used more narrowly to refer to substances or components with certain ph ...n be anything: a finished product in its own right or an unprocessed [[raw material]]. Raw materials are first extracted or harvested from the earth and divide
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• Shape memory polymer
  ...(''R''_f). The strain recovery rate describes the ability of the material to memorize its permanent shape, while the strain fixity rate describes the ...the cycle number, ''ε_m'' is the maximum strain imposed on the material, and ''ε_p(N)'' and ''ε_p(N-1)'' are the strains of t
  21 KB (2,974 words) - 10:09, 20 September 2010
• Polypropylene
  ...or colored using pigments. Polypropylene has good resistance to [[fatigue (material)|fatigue]]. ...t ranges from {{convert|160|to|166|C|F|abbr=on}}, depending on [[atactic]] material and crystallinity. [[Syndiotactic]] PP with a crystallinity of 30% has a me
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• Polyvinyl alcohol
  PVA is an [[atactic]] material but exhibits [[crystal]]linity as the [[hydroxyl]] groups are small enough Polyvinyl alcohol is the raw material to make other polymers like:
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• Polymer
  ...olymer, which describe how the polymer behaves as a continuous macroscopic material. Chemical properties, at the nano-scale, describe how the chains interact t ...expressed in terms of a weight fraction or volume fraction of crystalline material. Few synthetic polymers are entirely crystalline.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:/
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• Polyimide P84
  The base material for P84® fibres is composed of [[aromaticity|aromatic]] backbone units onl ...or high temperature filtration, [[personal protective equipment|protective clothing]], sealing materials for space craft to various high temperature applicatio
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• Sleeping bag
  ...sleeping bag is accidentally dropped into water on a cold day. Synthetic material is also firm and resilient, so it insulates well even underneath a person's An infant sleeping bag is a bag-like [[clothing|garment]] or covering worn by [[infant]]s for sleeping in. Infant sleeping
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• Blanket
  ...and [[comforter]]s, depending on their thickness, construction and/or fill material. [[Electric blanket]]s are heated by [[electricity]]. Blankets were traditi ...s where people want to sit in a grassy or muddy area without soiling their clothing. Temporary blankets have been designed for this purpose, although their inh
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• Thermal insulation
  ...eat energy. In home insulation, the R-value is an indication of how well a material insulates. ...ms of [[heat transfer]] and is dependent on the physical properties of the material employed to do this.
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• Dyeing
  '''Dyeing''' is the process of imparting [[colours]] to a textile material in loose fibre, [[yarn]], [[cloth]] or garment form by treatment with a [[ ...e thousands of years in which dyeing has been used by humans to decorate [[clothing]], or fabrics for other uses, the primary source of dye has been [[nature]]
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