• A foam path is the now-discouraged aviation safety practice of spreading a layer of fire suppression foam on an airport runway prior to an emergency landing...
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    Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression. Its role is to cool the fire and to coat the fuel, preventing its contact with oxygen, thus achieving...
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    spinfoam or spin foam consists of two-dimensional faces representing a configuration required by functional integration to obtain a Feynman's path integral description...
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    Polystyrene (redirect from Polystyrene foam)
    monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene. Polystyrene can be solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and brittle. It is an inexpensive...
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    a foam path, meaning a path, only usable at low tide, that links a tidal island to the continent or to another island. The song Hent-eon (foam path) describes...
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    notified Pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch. The cutter laid out a foam path for a best ditch heading of 315 degrees, to aid the captain to judge his...
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  • small business contract to develop a "foam-based vehicle arresting system," thought to possibly halt the path of a vehicle through "low-profile containers...
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    absorption materials are porous, referring to open cell foam (acoustic foam, soundproof foam). Fibrous absorption material such as cellulose, mineral...
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    Air filter (section Foam)
    other human-made environments (e.g., satellites, and Space Shuttles) use foam, pleated paper, or spun fiberglass filter elements. Another method, air ionizers...
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    With dry chemical extinguishers, nitrogen is typically used; water and foam extinguishers typically use air. Stored pressure fire extinguishers are the...
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    Tomahawk chop (redirect from Foam tomahawk)
    accompanied by a distinctive cheer. The Atlanta Braves also developed a foam tomahawk to complement the fan actions. The chop has been the source of controversy...
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    (natural or synthetic materials), form (batts, blankets, loose-fill, spray foam, and panels), structural contribution (insulating concrete forms, structured...
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    simplicity conditions to obtain a path integral for general relativity. The non-trivial task of constructing a spin foam model is then reduced to the question...
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    Tiarella (redirect from Foam Flower)
    Brzeskiewicz, Marjory (2002). "Conservation Assessment for Heart-leaved Foam-flower (Tiarella cordifolia)" (PDF). USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region...
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    various materials, such as wood, composites, metals, plastics, glass, and foams. CNC routers can perform the tasks of many carpentry shop machines such...
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    often involve fractals. Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection...
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    Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks and stripes. Early Greek philosophers studied pattern...
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    are used. An R-value can be given for a material (e.g. for polyethylene foam), or for an assembly of materials (e.g. a wall or a window). In the case...
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    materials and shape. Modern surfboards are made of polyurethane or polystyrene foam. Unlike soft top surfboards, hard top surfboards are also covered with layers...
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    hold. All 110 people on board were killed. At one time, fire fighting foam paths were laid down before an emergency landing, but the practice was considered...
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  • constraint on the summation over spin foam. The Barrett–Crane model on spin foam quantizes the Plebanski action, but its path integral amplitude corresponds...
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    X-rays flood the void (the "radiation channel" often filled with polystyrene foam) between the primary and secondary assemblies placed within an enclosure...
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    loss, such as: cellulose, glass wool, rock wool, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, vermiculite, perlite, wood fiber, plant fiber (cannabis, flax, cotton, cork...
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  • voids below the slab. One inherent property of expanding foams is that they will follow the path of least resistance, expanding in all directions. Another...
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  • up to 8000 degrees Celsius. Extinguisher rifle shoots flame-suppressing foam and an energy damping beam to counter other beams. Forearms shoot missiles...
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    retrofit, dowels, bond breaker, expansion caps, dowel bar support chairs, foam core insert, caulking filler, non-shrink concrete backfill material and submittals...
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    have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven, while mermaids turn to sea foam at death and cease to exist. The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and...
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  • spectrum of a ring, a construction in algebraic geometry Spray polyurethane foam, a building insulation material Spruce-pine-fir, mixed softwood timber Spot...
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    the outer surfaces of the fuel. Class B fires should be extinguished with foam, powder, or carbon dioxide extinguishers. Some Class-B fires can be controlled...
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    become iconic of the Space Shuttle program, is the color of the spray-on foam insulation. The first two tanks, used for STS-1 and STS-2, were painted white...
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