Matched Index of Refraction (or MIR) is a facility located at the Idaho National Laboratory built in the 1990s. The purpose of the fluid dynamics experiments...
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Idaho National Laboratory (category United States Department of Energy national laboratories)
Retrieved 2014-07-27. "Matched Index of Refraction Flow Facility". YouTube. 10 May 2010. "About the Geocentrifuge Research Facility". Idaho National Laboratory...
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negative refraction, imaging, lensing and cloaking. Springer, Dordrecht 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-4812-5. Phononic crystals Negative refractive index materials...
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Wave shoaling (redirect from Water wave refraction)
changes in wave height through different effects. Some of the important wave processes are refraction, diffraction, reflection, wave breaking, wave–current...
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area to catch on the target Snell's law, also known as Law of refraction – Formula for refraction angles Snoopy loop, also known as ranger band – Rubber band...
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Helium (redirect from History of helium)
further. Helium I has a gas-like index of refraction of 1.026 which makes its surface so hard to see that floats of Styrofoam are often used to show where...
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Traffic light (category History of road transport)
crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic. Traffic lights normally consist of three signals, transmitting meaningful information...
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Thermosphere (category Atmosphere of Earth)
electric currents can flow into the ionospheric dynamo region where they are closed by electric Pedersen and Hall currents. Ohmic losses of the Pedersen currents...
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Scientific method (redirect from Interpretations of the scientific method)
of the refraction of light, was able to deduce that outer space was less dense than air, that is: "the body of the heavens is rarer than the body of air"...
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Swell (ocean) (category Short description matches Wikidata)
typically have long wavelengths (and thus a deeper wave base), they begin the refraction process (see water waves) at greater distances offshore (in deeper water)...
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Halocline (category Short description matches Wikidata)
varying index of refraction across the boundary. A halocline is most commonly confused with a thermocline – a thermocline is an area within a body of water...
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Diving physics (category Short description matches Wikidata)
Snell's law describes the angle of refraction relative to the angle of incidence. This similarity in refractive index is the reason a diver cannot see...
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Ravindra Kumar Sinha (physicist) (category Short description matches Wikidata)
(metamaterials exhibiting negative refraction) metallo-dielectric photonic crystal exhibiting All Angle Negative Refraction for visible light is analyzed with...
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facility, U-M had 2,200 faculty and staff, and more than 600 students, based at the facility. The acquisition of the site spurred the development of several...
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physical properties of a material are essentially uniform.: 86 : 3 Examples of physical properties include density, index of refraction, magnetization and...
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small depth range within a body of water. Often visible as a blurred or shimmering region due to uneven refractive index. hand-off cylinder A diving cylinder...
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results with structural MRI show thinning of the cerebral cortex in ADHD subjects compared with age-matched controls in prefrontal cortex and posterior...
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Neutron (redirect from Mass of neutron)
wave optics of light, including reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference. Neutrons are complementary to X-rays in terms of atomic contrasts...
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tightly control the thickness of gate oxide, as well as the thickness, refractive index, and extinction coefficient of photoresist and other coatings...
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Nitrous oxide (redirect from Effects of nitrous oxide on the body)
practice at hospitals to initiate all anaesthetic treatments with a mild flow of nitrous oxide, and then gradually increase the anaesthesia with the stronger...
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Underwater firearm (category Weapons of the Cold War)
trajectory. The user, when aiming the gun, needs to compensate for the refractive index of the water (roughly 1.333 for fresh water at 20 °C (68 °F)). MEA series...
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Rare-earth element (redirect from Environmental impacts of rare-earth mining)
Construction of the facility has been halted until an independent United Nations IAEA panel investigation is completed, which is expected by the end of June 2011...
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Dolphin (redirect from List of dolphin species)
and cornea correct the nearsightedness that results from the water's refraction of light. Their eyes contain both rod and cone cells, meaning they can...
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Ammonia (redirect from Biosynthesis of ammonia)
Schmeltekopf, A. L.; Ferguson, E. E. (1975). "Flow–drift tube measurements of kinetic energy dependences of some exothermic proton transfer rate constants"...
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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station (category Outposts of Antarctica)
South Pole sees the Sun rise and set only once a year. Due to atmospheric refraction, these do not occur exactly on the September equinox and the March equinox...
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Hydrogen sulfide (category Short description matches Wikidata)
wife died after driving to the facility to check on him. A CSB investigation cited lax safety practices at the facility, such as an informal lockout-tagout...
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"NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars Portion of Horowitz CraterMartian slopes Walls of Garni Crater on Mars". nasa.gov. Archived...
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most land animals developed internal fertilization of their eggs. The difference in refractive index between water and air required changes in their eyes...
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Graphene (redirect from Industrial applications of graphene)
and refractive index of chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD)-grown graphene films. At a wavelength of 670 nm (6.7×10−7 m), measured refractive index and extinction...
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Glass fiber (category Short description matches Wikidata)
cooled and packaged. The marbles are taken to the fiber manufacturing facility where they are inserted into a can and remelted. The molten glass is extruded...
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