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• Fallout shelter
  ...r adult (65 mg/day per child) as an additional measure to protect the human thyroid gland from the uptake of dangerous radioactive iodine, a component ...re. In terms of activity ([[becquerel]]s or [[curie]]s), the activity in a power reactor fuel one hour after shutdown tends to be more long lived because th
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• 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun
  ...nt of the [[Iowa class battleship|''Iowa''-class battleships]]. Due to its power it is regarded by many as one of the most effective [[naval artillery|battl ..."Kirishima">{{cite book | last = Mindell | first = David | title = Between Human and Machine | publisher = Johns Hopkins | year = 2002 | location = Baltimor
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• Goalkeeper CIWS
  | crew = Automated, with human oversight ...all in only a matter of seconds. The system is fully automatic, needing no human input once activated. The name comes from the [[Goalkeeper (association foo
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• Phalanx CIWS
  | crew = Automated, with human oversight ...ation, such as environmental control, transmitter, mount movement control, power control and distribution and so on. It takes 6 to 8 months to train a tech
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• Sentry gun
  ...th low-power sentry guns, however, they are called turrets and thus may be human-operated. In [[Crysis]]' multiplayer Power Struggle mode there are sentry guns equipped with machine guns and missile
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  | title = Between Human and Machine }}</ref> During World War II, servomechanisms (called "power drives" in the U.S. Navy) were developed that allowed the guns to automatic
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...of 20&nbsp;m (66&nbsp;ft) in a shallow water military port, but also in a power-glide torpedo-bombing run, at the [[Nakajima B5N|Nakajima B5N2]]'s maximum ...project of Type 91 aerial torpedo since 1931. Capt F. Aiko concentrated [[human resources]] to make aerial torpedo, ordered to analyze the cause and to mak
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• Potassium iodide
  ...of KI include use as a nutritional supplement in animal feeds and also the human diet. For the latter, it is the most common additive used to "iodize" [[sod ...id Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Resear
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• Lopinavir
  ...ine therapy recommended by the US [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|DHHS]].<ref name="dhhs">DHHS panel. Guidelines for the use of anti ...f DJ, Molla A, ''et al.'' (1998) ABT-378, a highly potent inhibitor of the human immunodeficiency virus protease. ''Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.'' 42: 3218
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• Activated carbon
  ...fume hoods or other gas control systems as the gas is undetectable to the human senses, toxic to metabolism and neurotoxic. ...present in the system a continuous flow of gas and hence constant cooling power can be obtained, by having one sorption pump regenerating while the other i
  41 KB (5,738 words) - 15:47, 27 September 2010
• Glucose
  ...]], or [[Fermentation (biochemistry)|fermentation]]. Carbohydrates are the human body's key source of energy, through aerobic respiration, providing approxi ...o the blood because of a lack of enzymes. In fat cells, glucose is used to power reactions that synthesize some [[fat]] types and have other purposes. Glyco
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• Nitrous oxide
  ...izer]] in [[rocket]]ry and in [[Auto racing|motor racing]] to increase the power output of [[Piston engine|engines]]. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxid ...others. It is also notably used in [[amateur rocketry|amateur]] and [[high power rocket]]ry with various [[plastic]]s as the fuel.
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• Mercury (element)
  ...oogle.com/?id=a4hPCX2XWDIC&pg=PA33|page=33|title=Domestic Architecture and Power|author=Jamieson, R W|publisher=Springer|year=2000|isbn=0306461765}}</ref> ...e responsible for approximately half of atmospheric mercury emissions. The human-generated half can be divided into the following estimated percentages:<ref
  69 KB (10,077 words) - 20:35, 20 September 2010
• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...dia" /> In 1974, the 15th edition adopted a third goal: to systematise all human knowledge.<ref name="propedia_preface" /> The history of the ''Britannica'' ...ly to be a good reference work and educational tool but to systematise all human knowledge. The absence of a separate index and the grouping of articles int
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...lectures when they were first delivered because the ethical problems that human beings confront in their lives have not changed over the centuries. Moral v ...truth cannot be the same as descriptive truth; and if the only truth that human beings can know is descriptive truth—the truth of propositions concerning
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• Homeostasis
  {{See|Human homeostasis}} ...arantula]] ([[Poikilotherm|cold-blooded]] or exothermic) on a warm-blooded human hand ([[endothermic]]).]]
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• Putty
  ...nstance, to test the penetrative power of [[projectile]]s, or the stopping power of [[Bulletproof vest|body armour]].
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• Rice hulls
  ...lls and natural rice hulls. Rice hulls are an inexpensive [[byproduct]] of human food processing, serving as a source of [[fiber]] that is considered a [[Fi With proper techniques, rice hulls can be burned and used to power steam engines. Some rice mills originally dispose off the hulls in this way
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• Designed materials
  Quest for a material to suit the service performance is almost as old as human civilization. So far [[Materials engineering|materials engineers]] have dev 1. Designed materials: what and how? First International Symposium on High-Power Laser Macroprocessing, Isamu Miyamoto; Kojiro F. Kobayashi; Koji Sugioka; R
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• Electroactive polymers
  ...eted to design a robotic arm consisting of EAP muscles that could defeat a human in an arm wrestling match. The first challenge was held at the Electroactiv ...trical]] [[power (physics)|power]] consumption. Dielectric EAPs require no power to keep the actuator at a given position. Examples are electrostrictive pol
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