Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel and pre-atomic steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the...
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of its high tensile strength and low cost, steel is one of the most commonly manufactured materials in the world. Steel is used in buildings, as concrete...
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radioactivity Flight-time equivalent dose Noise (electronics) Low-background steel International Atomic Energy Agency (2007). IAEA Safety Glossary: Terminology...
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scrapping. Those that remain are popular diving sites and a source of low-background steel. The signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 with Germany, at...
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Battleship steel could refer to: Types of steel used as armour on battleships: Harvey armour Krupp armour Low-background steel, derived from battleships...
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pieces, and then recycled. Steel from pre-nuclear age ships either mothballed or sunk and raised, called low-background steel, is used in experimental physics...
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survive. Six hundred tons of steel armor plate, manufactured before the atomic age, are used by Fermilab as low-background steel to shield experiments from...
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often housed in low background counting chambers. Typically this is a small room with very thick walls made of low-background steel (~20 cm) and sometimes...
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Chinese ship, Chuan Hong 68, illegally scavenged the wreck for its low-background steel. In July 2024, this same vessel, Chuan Hong 68, suspected of not...
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in September 2013. Some of the low-background steel that made up Indiana's hull was recycled to create the low background counting chamber at the in Vivo...
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decontamination Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Low-background steel Nuclear and radiation accidents Nuclear debate (disambiguation) Nuclear...
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are also often housed in a low background counting chamber. Such a chamber may have thick walls made of low-background steel (~20–25 cm thick) and lined...
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Chinese ship, Chuan Hong 68, illegally scavenged the wreck for its low-background steel. In July 2024, this same vessel, Chuan Hong 68, suspected of not...
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König-class battleship (section Background)
sold to Britain in 1962. The wrecks have been used as sources of low-background steel, which has occasionally been removed for use in scientific devices...
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shallower than 80 metres (260 ft)— are threatened by scavenging for low-background steel for use in medical and scientific equipment. During World War I,...
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intact rudders and steering gear), the ship was broken up for her low-background steel and sold to an anonymous "research institute." The salvagers retrieved...
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almost all of the propulsion machinery, most likely because it is low-background steel. "ARKENAS has proposed that the site be declared a Situs Cagar Budaya...
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The Hum (redirect from Low frequency noise)
university study of fifty cases of people complaining about a "low throbbing background noise" that others were unable to hear. The sound, always peaking...
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The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Until its closure in 2003, it was one of...
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Max Steel was an American media franchise produced and owned by the multinational company Mattel. Originally released as a line of action figures marketed...
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The Caves of Steel is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is a detective story and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that...
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A steel can, tin can, tin (especially in British English, Australian English, Canadian English and South African English), or can is a container made...
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Relief (redirect from Low-relief)
whether high or low, were normally "blocked out" by marking the outline of the figure and reducing the background areas to the new background level, work...
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guitar solo with pedal steel guitar flourishes is played between the first chorus and second verse. The song spans from a low note of E2 to F♯4. Lee and...
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Bernie Leadon (category Pedal steel guitarists)
multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream...
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Markgraf and her sisters are among the few accessible sources of low-background steel, which has occasionally been removed for use in scientific devices...
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Cryogenics (redirect from Low temperature)
physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th International Institute of Refrigeration's (IIR) International...
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: 24 Due to poor sales, low concert attendance and overall media indifference, the 1975–76 tour supporting Caress of Steel became known by the band as...
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Tata Steel Europe Ltd. (formerly Corus Group plc) was a steelmaking company headquartered in London, England, with its main operations in the United Kingdom...
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Tesla Cybertruck (section Background)
November 2019, it has a body design reminiscent of low-polygon modelling, consisting of flat stainless steel sheet panels. Tesla initially planned to produce...
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