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• Fallout shelter
  ...et Union and other Eastern Bloc countries often designed their underground mass-transit and subway tunnels to serve as bomb and fallout shelters in the eve Dry earth is a reasonably good thermal insulator, and over several weeks of habitation, a shelter will become too
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• Nag missile
  |weight=42 kg (93 [[Pound (mass)|lb]]) |filling=8 kg (17.6 [[Pound (mass)|lb]]) tandem warhead
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• ERYX
  ...missile. AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada Inc has been developed the Mirabel thermal imager for the ERYX firing post. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fas.org/ma ...ent of an enhanced Eryx system. The new system features a new, non-cooled thermal sight which uses a [[Bolometer|bolometric sensor]]. MBDA asserts that that
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...d ignites the highly explosive. Unless otherwise the ignition of the inner mass, the highly explosive will not explode. A 20mm explosive cannon shellfire g Each screw is wrought from a cube steel alloy mass into bold cross shape and punched through the center. Hammering punches of
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• Activated carbon
  ...ng gas storage method because the gas can be stored in a low pressure, low mass, low volume environment that would be much more feasible than bulky on boar ===Thermal regeneration===
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• Potassium chloride
  *Thermal conductivity = 0.036 W/(cm·K) ...ing that a lethal dose for 50% of people weighing 75&nbsp;kg (165 [[Pound (mass)|lb]]) is about 190 g (6.7 [[ounce]]s). Intravenously this is reduced to ju
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• Mercury (element)
  ...e in ordinary rock. The richest mercury ores contain up to 2.5% mercury by mass, and even the leanest concentrated deposits are at least 0.1% mercury (12,0 ...cessdate= April 17, 2005}}</ref> It is also used as a disinfectant. [[Blue mass]], a pill or syrup in which mercury is the main ingredient, was prescribed
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• Sodium chloride
  [[Thermal conductivity]] of pure NaCl as a function of temperature has a maximum of 2 Salt is currently [[Mass production|mass-produced]] by [[evaporation]] of [[seawater]] or [[brine]] from other sourc
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• Rebar
  ...d concrete have similar [[coefficient of thermal expansion|coefficients of thermal expansion]]: a concrete structural member reinforced with steel will experi ....writing.eng.vt.edu/urs/wallenfelsz.pdf GFRP Bar Transverse Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Effects on Concrete Cover]</ref> Although rebar has ribs that bin
  15 KB (2,103 words) - 10:22, 20 September 2010
• Homeostasis
  [[Image:wiki tarantula.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Thermal image of a cold-blooded [[tarantula]] ([[Poikilotherm|cold-blooded]] or exo ...low temperatures, whereas a co-located endotherm may be fully active. That thermal stability comes at a price since an automatic regulation system requires ad
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• Orthotropic material
  ...>|| [[Temperature gradient]] <br /><math>-\boldsymbol{\nabla}T</math> || [[Thermal conductivity]] <br /><math>\boldsymbol{\kappa}</math> ...|| [[Concentration gradient]]<br /><math>-\boldsymbol{\nabla}c</math> || [[Mass diffusivity|Diffusivity]]<br /> <math>\boldsymbol{D}</math>
  23 KB (2,910 words) - 10:07, 20 September 2010
• Refractory
  ...ve specific ranges of [[thermal conductivity]] and of the coefficient of [[thermal expansion]]. #Un-formed (Monolithic- Plastic, ramming and gunning mass, castables)
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• Mineral wool
  ...'' or '''stone wool'''. Industrial applications of mineral wool include [[thermal insulation]], [[filtration]], [[soundproofing]], and [[hydroponics|germinat ...like the process used to prepare [[cotton candy]]. The final product is a mass of fine, intertwined fibres with a typical diameter of 6 to 10 [[micrometer
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• Ceramic materials
  ...ide evidence of chemical composition include odor, color, volume, density (mass / volume), melting point, boiling point, heat capacity, physical form at ro ...tural defects and hardness microindentions. Most bulk mechanical, optical, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties are significantly affected by the obser
  28 KB (3,876 words) - 10:08, 20 September 2010
• Electroactive polymers
  ...AP)}} </ref>. The rubber band was fixed at one end and was attached to a [[mass]] at the other. It was then charged and discharged to study the change in l .... The synthesis of highly oriented elastomers leads to have a large strain thermal actuation along the polymer chain direction with temperature variation resu
  25 KB (3,633 words) - 10:09, 20 September 2010
• Polyanhydrides
  ...olyanhydrides determines the structure, composition, molecular weight, and thermal properties of the molecule. These properties are determined by using vario ===Thermal properties===
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• Polymer nanocomposite
  ...tood theoretically in detail but its known from experiments that low molar mass systems tend to fill the pores completely, whereas polymers of sufficient c ...b> (D, 0) ∝ 1/D and some more models relating specific heat, density and thermal expansion are used to obtain the experimental results on nanopolymers and e
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• Zytel
  ...[motor oil]], [[transmission fluid]], and [[methanol]], and shows little [[thermal expansion]]<ref>[http://plastics.dupont.com/myplastics/Mediator?id=1245&loc ...l. These special gold-colored shoes were made by Nike and the soles had a mass of 30&nbsp;grams{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}
  14 KB (1,875 words) - 10:09, 20 September 2010
• Polypropylene
  ...ty of applications, including [[packaging]], [[textile]]s (e.g. [[rope]]s, thermal underwear and carpets), [[stationery]], plastic parts and reusable containe ...<ref>[http://www.lehighgroup.com/fiber.htm Rope Materials]</ref> For equal mass and construction, polypropylene rope is similar in strength to polyester ro
  25 KB (3,657 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2010
• Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)
  ...n hydrated state to a shrunken dehydrated state, losing about 90% of its [[mass]]. Since PNIPAm expels its liquid contents at a temperature near that of t ...L. , Tavano L. , Oliviero Rossi C. , " Rheological characterization of the thermal gelation of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)co-A
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