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• Firefighting
  ...0 minutes before the underlaying wood catches. The house had double paned windows which reduced radiant heating of the interior and flash over fires. Fire s
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• Urban retreat
  you can break a few windows and burn some curtains and trash on the first floor and
  5 KB (872 words) - 23:01, 5 June 2010
• Fallout shelter
  .... The thickness of the upper floors must form an effective shield, and the windows of the sheltered area must not view fallout-covered ground that is closer t ...a room with no windows or doors. The radioactive dust on the roof, and the windows and doors will make the estimation of the protection factor more difficult.
  24 KB (3,899 words) - 19:58, 11 June 2010
• Casting materials
  Fine sand? Just run any common sand through meshes. Screen windows, flour sieves, whatever you can find to separate the finer parts. Beach san
  2 KB (339 words) - 21:16, 22 June 2010
• AT4
  ...he heavier nose cap allows the HEDP projectile to penetrate light walls or windows and then explode, or "skipped" off the ground for an air-burst. For use ag
  23 KB (3,570 words) - 20:53, 1 July 2010
• MK 108 cannon
  ...many British heavy bombers had neither weapons on the ventral fuselage or windows for vision. This installation was so effective that discovery and news of i
  10 KB (1,518 words) - 20:53, 2 July 2010
• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ..., elevation, and range. To do this, it had optical sights (the rectangular windows or hatches on the front), an optical rangefinder (the tubes or ears stickin
  54 KB (8,488 words) - 21:31, 2 July 2010
• Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
  | operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Mac OS X]] [[Category:Windows software]]
  3 KB (321 words) - 13:32, 19 September 2010
• Intumescent
  *windows
  8 KB (1,148 words) - 10:07, 20 September 2010
• Ceramic materials
  ...d for applications such as nose cones for [[heat-seeking]] [[missiles]], [[windows]] for fighter [[aircraft]], and [[scintillation counter]]s for computed [[t
  28 KB (3,876 words) - 10:08, 20 September 2010
• Gemstone
  ...d stones which are cut with a [[faceting machine]] by polishing small flat windows called [[facet]]s at regular intervals at exact angles.
  24 KB (3,690 words) - 10:08, 20 September 2010
• Long fiber reinforced thermoplastic
  ...easingly valuable and popular part of building envelope components such as windows and doors.
  1 KB (204 words) - 10:09, 20 September 2010
• Polybutene
  ...ude, sealants, adhesives, extenders for putties used for sealing roofs and windows, coatings, polymer modification, tackified polyethylene films, personal car
  4 KB (554 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2010
• R-value (insulation)
  ...leaves unaffected the conductive heat loss through such materials as glass windows and studs as well as heat losses from air exchange. ...placing air with argon when practical such as between sealed double-glazed windows and within special closed-pore foam insulation.
  23 KB (3,508 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Aerogel
  ...silica aerogel would be very suitable as a thermal insulation material for windows, significantly limiting thermal losses of buildings. One [http://zerogaerog
  26 KB (3,758 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Building insulation materials
  ...s/lib_ks_energy-efficient_windows.pdf US DOE publication, Energy Efficient Windows]
  49 KB (7,250 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Building insulation
  ...e<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>; in an otherwise well insulated home, windows will then become an important source of heat transfer.<ref>[http://www.clim ...The Solar Heat Gain Co-efficient (SGHC)<ref>[http://www.wers.net/faqs#shgc Windows Energy Ratings Scheme - WERS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> (a measure
  18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Insulated glazing
  ...to higher energy costs. '''Insulated glazing''' may be framed in a [[Sash windows|sash]], [[window|frame]] or in a [[curtain wall]]. ...independently altered by different coatings.<ref>[http://www.wers.net/faqs Windows Energy Ratings Scheme - WERS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
  28 KB (4,352 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Thermal insulation
  ...height and head height) and horizontally from exterior walls, ceilings and windows to the interior walls, thus producing a more comfortable occupant environme ...s/lib_ks_energy-efficient_windows.pdf US DOE publication, Energy Efficient Windows]
  10 KB (1,442 words) - 10:14, 20 September 2010
• Dust
  ...[hay fever]]. Circulating outdoor air through a house by keeping doors and windows open, or at least slightly ajar, may reduce the risk of hay fever-causing d
  11 KB (1,644 words) - 10:15, 20 September 2010

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