• Quartz fiber is a fiber created from high-purity quartz crystals. It is made by first softening quartz rods (in an oxyhydrogen flame) and then creating...
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    A quartz fiber dosimeter, sometimes called a self indicating pocket dosimeter (SIPD) or self reading pocket dosimeter (SRPD) or quartz fibre electrometer...
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    continuous fiber reinforcement is implemented by incorporating a fiber as the strong phase into a weak phase, matrix. The reason for the popularity of fiber usage...
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    thermoluminescent dosimeters. These use the property of a quartz fiber to measure the static electricity held on the fiber. Before use by the wearer a dosimeter is charged...
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    portal Earth sciences portal Fused quartz List of minerals Quartz fiber Quartz reef mining Quartzolite Shocked quartz "Quartz". A Dictionary of Geology and...
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    (silicon dioxide), when cooled as fused quartz into a glass with no true melting point, can be used as a glass fiber for fiberglass, but has the drawback...
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    for optical fiber, used for telecommunications. Because of its strength and high melting point (compared to ordinary glass), fused quartz is used as an...
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    types of glass fiber filters and the major difference is thickness. Quartz fiber filter paper has a high resistance to chemicals, does not absorb NOx...
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  • simulated readings could be fed to the meter from an EPROM. The 1958–1959 "Quartz Fibre Dosimeter Chargers, No. 1 and 2" were retained until the early 1990s...
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  • A fiber-optic splitter, also known as a beam splitter, is based on a quartz substrate of an integrated waveguide optical power distribution device, similar...
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    fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...
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    those of carbon fibers. Fiberglass, made from specific glass, and optical fiber, made from purified natural quartz, are also artificial fibers that come from...
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    principles of electrostatics. A type of electroscope is also used in the quartz fiber radiation dosimeter. Electroscopes were used by the Austrian scientist...
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  • elements, in the core layer of silica fiber. Amplifying fiber is highly integrable with traditional quartz fiber and also have many advantages such as...
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  • studied solution, usually made from ceramics or capillary with asbestos or quartz fiber. Body of electrode, made from non-conductive glass or plastics. The bottom...
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    between tiles to allow for thermal expansion. The gaps were filled with quartz fiber, rope, alkaline elements, inserts and brush seals, and the tiles were...
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    Roentgen Display of quartz fiber dosimeter, in units of roentgen. General information Unit system Legacy unit Unit of Exposure to ionizing radiation Symbol...
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  • ⁠Joule/metre⁠ ⁠keV/μm⁠ Kerma ionization chamber, semiconductor detector, quartz fiber dosimeter, Kearny fallout meter ⁠esu/cm3⁠ gray (⁠joule/kg⁠) roentgen...
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  • Mercury and Gemini missions both used fiber glass in the resin, while the Apollo spacecraft using a quartz fiber reinforced resin. The first use of a super-light...
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    laser physics. They are used as optical repeaters in the long distance fiber-optic cables which carry much of the world's telecommunication links. There...
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  • Fiberglass (redirect from Fiber glass)
    fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet...
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    employs a metal-coated quartz fiber instead of an aluminum sector. The deflection is measured by observing the movement of the fiber under a microscope....
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  • Basalt fibers are produced from basalt rocks by melting them and converting the melt into fibers. Basalts are rocks of igneous origin. The main energy...
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    heaters. Industrial infrared heaters sometimes use a gold coating on the quartz tube that reflects the infrared radiation and directs it towards the product...
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    dioxide and aluminium oxides are also proposed as radiation dosimeters. Quartz fiber dosimeter Thermoluminescent dosimeter Film badge dosimeter Comparison...
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    radiation detection had seen widespread application in the form of the quartz fiber dosimeter. Professional radiation meters, while more accurate and more...
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    of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2, commonly found in nature as quartz. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica...
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    were using recording electroscopes with a quartz fiber, and a battery-powered clock to recharge the fiber, to measure the intensity of mesons at two...
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  • radiation detector called the Lauritsen electroscope, widely used as quartz fiber radiation dosimeters. In 1940, more than a year before the U.S. entered...
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    Common types of wearable dosimeters for ionizing radiation include: Quartz fiber dosimeter Film badge dosimeter Thermoluminescent dosimeter Solid state...
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