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• Fallout shelter
  [[Image:fallout shelter.jpg|thumb|A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City.]] .... Many such shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War.
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  {{Infobox Military rating |issued_by= [[United States Navy]]
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• Naloxone
  ...ioid overdose antidote Naloxone over counter 'will save lives' | publisher=The Guardian | date=29 January 2016 | author=Melissa Davey}}</ref> .../books?id=Rn51BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191}}</ref> Multiple doses may be required, as the duration of action of most opioids is greater than that of naloxone.<ref na
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• Activated carbon
  ...ough further chemical treatment often enhances the absorbing properties of the material. Activated carbon is usually derived from [[charcoal]]. ...oal]] and [[Pitch (resin)|petroleum pitch]]. It can be produced by one of the following processes:
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• Nitrous oxide
  | SolubleOther = soluble in [[alcohol]], [[ether]], [[sulfuric acid]] ...[California]] allow nitrous oxide as an [[anesthetic]]. Also used in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]]. -->
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• Diazepam
  ...fect of the neurotransmitter GABA by binding to the benzodiazepine site on the [[GABAA receptor|GABA_A receptor]] leading to [[central nervous s ...[[paradoxical effects]] such as excitement, rage or worsening of seizures in epileptics. Benzodiazepines also can cause or worsen [[Major depression|dep
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899) | country = United Kingdom (1768–1900)<br>United States (1901–present)
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• Propædia
  ...listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the ''Britannica''. ==The Outline of Knowledge==
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• Ceramic materials
  ...to produce [[ceramic]]s, but many different ceramic materials are now used in domestic, industrial and building products. ...morphous solid (non-crystalline). However, glass involves several steps of the ceramic process and its mechanical properties behave similarly to ceramic m
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• Petroleum
  ...s first used in the treatise ''De Natura Fossilium'', published in 1546 by the [[Germany|German]] mineralogist [[Georg Bauer]], also known as Georgius Agr ...es depending on the subsurface conditions, and on the [[phase diagram]] of the petroleum mixture.<ref name="Hyne 2001">Hyne (2001), pp. 1–4.</ref>
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• Depleted uranium
  [[File:30mm DU slug.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The DU penetrator of a [[30 mm]] round<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060716 ...|accessdate= |author= |date= |year= |publisher= UN |pages= }}</ref> In the past, DU has been called '''Q-metal''', '''depletalloy''', and '''D-38'''.
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• Gunpowder
  ...leloading]] rifles and pistols in FFFG granulation size. [[Quarter (United States coin)|Coin]] (diameter 24 mm) for comparison.]] ...ern firearms do not use the traditional gunpowder (black powder) described in this article, but instead use [[smokeless powder]]. [[Antique]] firearms or
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• Kerosene
  ...ican Gas Light Company and the Downer Company (to which Gesner had granted the right) were allowed to call their lamp oil ''kerosene''.<ref>{{Cite book | title = The golden flood: an informal history of America's first oil field
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• 4-NEMD
  ...by the United States military as an anaesthetic agent, most likely for use in surgery but possibly also for use as a non-lethal incapacitating agent.<ref
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• Air safety
  ...n also be applied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of [[air travel]]. ===United States===
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• Implications of nanotechnology
  ...lds such as engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, military applications, and communications. ...sks which were previously inaccessible due to physical restrictions, which in turn may reduce labor, land, or maintenance requirements placed on humans.
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• Emergency management
  ...zational level after the current level's resources have been exhausted. In the private sector, emergency management is sometimes referred to as [[business ...gement context. This focuses on the mitigation and preparedness aspects of the emergency cycle (see below).
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• Arsenic
  <!-- THIS ARTICLE WAS STARTED AND IS KEPT IN BRITISH SPELLING --> ...he occurrence of arsenic in drinking water is problematic in some parts of the world.
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• Beryllium
  ...|ɪ|l|i|əm}} {{respell|bə|RIL|ee-əm}}) is the [[chemical element]] with the symbol '''Be''' and [[atomic number]] 4. ...on, make it in many ways an ideal aerospace material, and it has been used in rocket nozzles and is a significant component of planned space telescopes.
  41 KB (5,890 words) - 21:34, 20 September 2010
• Electromagnetic field
  ...s of nature (the others are [[gravitation]], the [[weak interaction]], and the [[strong interaction]]). ...with the electromagnetic field is described by [[Maxwell's equations]] and the [[Lorentz force law]].
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