• Nichrome (also known as NiCr, nickel-chromium or chromium-nickel) is a family of alloys of nickel and chromium (and occasionally iron) commonly used as...
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  • In comparison to other types of resistance wire used in vaping such as Nichrome, titanium-alloy and stainless steel, Kanthal is durable enough to withstand...
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    gauze may be woven from metals including iron, steel, copper, and nichrome. Nichrome alloy provides long life expectancy and tear resistance. The edges...
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    slots into which bread is inserted, and heating elements, often made of nichrome wire, to generate heat and toast the bread to the desired level of crispiness...
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  • electric ovens and water heaters, and in specialized forms for cooktops. Nichrome, a non-magnetic 80/20 alloy of nickel and chromium, is the most common...
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    heating elements include: Ni-Cr(Fe) resistance heating alloys, also known as nichrome or Chromel, are described by both ASTM and DIN standards. These standards...
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    electric heating devices use nichrome wire as the active element; the heating element, depicted on the right, uses nichrome wire supported by ceramic insulators...
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  • (lead, tin) Wood's metal (lead, tin, cadmium) Chromium hydride (hydrogen) Nichrome (nickel) Ferrochrome (iron) Elgiloy (cobalt, chromium, nickel, iron, molybdenum...
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    heating element in most dryers is a bare, coiled nichrome wire that is wrapped around mica insulators. Nichrome is used due to its high resistivity, and low...
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  • was originally made of twisted metal wire (such as platinum, tungsten or nichrome), but disposable molded plastic versions are now common. The size of the...
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  • to high-temperature corrosion and oxidation. It is also commonly called Nichrome 80-20, and is used for electric heating elements. Chromel C is an alloy...
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  • 75×105 Manganese 144×10−8 6.94×105 Plutonium (0 °C) 146×10−8 6.85×105 Nichrome 110×10−8 6.70×105 [citation needed] 0.40×10−3 Carbon (graphite) parallel...
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    used for this purpose is a nickel-chromium mixture, also known as nichrome. The nichrome wire is wound around a ceramic core, and the number of spirals per...
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    austenitic structure even after long time exposures to high temperatures". Nichrome is used as resistance wire for heating elements in things like toasters...
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  • flames can be tried to verify the accuracy of the color. Wooden splints, Nichrome wires, platinum wires, magnesia rods, cotton swabs, and melamine foam are...
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    MOV – Passes current when excessive voltage is present Resistance wire, Nichrome wire – wire of high-resistance material, often used as a heating element...
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  • Zealand William Hoskins (inventor) (1862–1934), American co-inventor of nichrome and modern billiard chalk W. G. Hoskins (William George Hoskins, 1908–1992)...
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  • material was patented that year as chromel, later and still today marketed as nichrome. For this invention, Marsh was acclaimed as "father of the electrical heating...
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    temperature regulation, and short life of heating elements. The invention of nichrome alloy for resistance wires improved the cost and durability of heating...
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  • worked on a variety of projects - he was awarded a patent for designing a nichrome heating system which prevented Navy patrol plane crew members' penises...
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    becomes more ductile. The Nichrome and Chromel C are examples of an alloy containing iron. The composition typical of Nichrome is 60 Ni, 12 Cr, 26 Fe, 2...
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    (μV/K) Selenium 900 Tellurium 500 Silicon 440 Germanium 330 Antimony 47 Nichrome 25 Iron 19 Molybdenum 10 Cadmium, tungsten 7.5 Gold, silver, copper 6.5...
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    compounds such as formaldehyde can inadvertently be produced when the nichrome wire (heating element) that touches the e-liquid is heated and chemically...
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    current causes a rapid rise in temperature, heating up twice as fast as nichrome, the heating element of choice for in-flight de-icing, while using half...
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    electricity, normally heating ribbons composed of high resistance wire (see Nichrome). This principle is also used for baseboard heaters and portable heaters...
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    tolerate the significant temperature difference between the water and the nichrome heating element.[citation needed] Specialty glass smoking pipes for cannabis...
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    lighter is a metal or plastic cylinder containing a thin flat coil of nichrome metal strip, through which high current (≈10 amperes) passes when the device...
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    from a kit. Kits include the thin wire needed for the bridgewire, such as nichrome wire, along with components for mixing the pyrogen. Scratch-built matches...
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    temperature regulation, and short life of heating elements. The invention of nichrome alloy for resistance wires improved the cost and durability of heating...
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    compounds such as formaldehyde, can inadvertently be produced when the nichrome wire (heating element) that touches the e-liquid is heated and chemically...
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