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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  |issued_by= [[United States Navy]] ...ility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marine Force, Special Forces and Seabee units, and at isolated duty stations where no medical off
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• Arc Welding
  ...nert 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 runnin ...imir Mitkevich proposed the usage of three-phase electric arc for welding. In 1919, [[alternating current]] welding was invented by C.J. Holslag but did
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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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• 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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• 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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• Polybutylene
  ...-butene)''', '''PB-1''') is a [[polyolefin]] or saturated [[polymer]] with the chemical formula (C₄H₈)_n. It should not be ...and [[polyethylene]]. Because of its specific properties it is mainly used in pressure piping, flexible packaging, water heaters, compounding and hot mel
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• Ruthenium
  ...ction of thick-film resistors. A minor application of ruthenium is its use in some platinum [[alloy]]s. ...r bar of lustrous silvery metal. One end is rough, as though broken, while the other, cigar-shaped end is relatively smooth.|A half of a pure, [[Electron
  39 KB (5,430 words) - 10:13, 20 September 2010
• Building insulation materials
  '''Building insulation materials''' are [[thermal insulation]] used in the construction or retrofit of buildings. ...on]] or [[convection]] and are employed in varying combinations to achieve the desired outcome (usually [[thermal comfort]] with reduced energy consumptio
  49 KB (7,250 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Textile manufacturing
  ...ry of Textile manufacturing from 1750 to 1850 | Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution|Hand processing techniques today and before 1750 | Te ...xtile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods|hand techniques]] to achieve the same results.
  38 KB (5,949 words) - 10:16, 20 September 2010
• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  {{For|the list of non-sword national treasure craft items|List of National Treasures The term "[[National Treasures of Japan|National Treasure]]" has been used in Japan to denote [[Cultural Properties of Japan|cultural properties]] since
  154 KB (20,678 words) - 10:19, 20 September 2010
• Steel
  ...(materials science)|hardness]], [[ductility]], and [[tensile strength]] of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and ...iron]], which can contain a small amount of carbon, but it is included in the form of [[slag]] [[inclusion (casting)|inclusion]]s. Two distinguishing fac
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• Hemp
  ...ut|industrial hemp|its psychoactive variant|Cannabis (drug)|the biology of the plant|Cannabis|other uses|Hemp (disambiguation)}} [[Image:Cannab2 new.png|thumb|right|The variety of appearances for cannabis. Only ''C. sativa'' (left) is suited fo
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• Joseph LaDou
  ...se that trained more than 3,000 physicians (500 from developing countries) in [[occupational medicine]]. ...ph, ed. 1986. Special Issue on "The Microelectronics Industry," ''State of the Art Reviews: Occupational Medicine'' 1(1, January-March). Philadelphia: Han
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• Young worker safety and health
  ...almost any economic sector. However, at a global level, most of them work in agriculture (70%).<ref name=WHO_Childlab/> ...t available for younger adolescents who are also known to work, especially in agricultural settings.
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• Confined space
  In a wide variety of industrial environments workers may be expected to enter ...anding of the issues involved in entering and working in these spaces, and the management of potential hazards to ensure on-going worker health and safety
  59 KB (9,427 words) - 21:30, 20 September 2010
• Ethylene oxide
  ...of its special molecular structure, ethylene oxide easily participates in the [[addition reaction]], opening its cycle, and thus easily [[polymerisation| ...liquid.<ref name=Ullmann>Siegfried Rebsdat, Dieter Mayer "Ethylene Oxide" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005.{{
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...omplete oxidation to carbon dioxide (CO₂) and is often produced in domestic or industrial settings by motor vehicles and other gasoline-powere ...xyhemoglobin can revert to hemoglobin, but the recovery takes time because the HbCO complex is fairly stable.
  71 KB (9,723 words) - 21:31, 20 September 2010
• Implications of nanotechnology
  The '''implications of [[nanotechnology]]''' run the gamut from the [[Nanomedicine|medical]], [[ethical]], [[mental]], legal and environmental ...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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• Benzene
  ...thor= David R. Lide, ed.|title= "Physical Constants of Organic Compounds", in CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Internet Version 2005, <http://www.h ...ers.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=87|issue=1|pages=167–9|year=1990|pmid=2153285|pmc=53221
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