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    The People's Defense Units (YPG), also called People's Protection Units, is a Kurdish militant group in Syria and the primary component of the Syrian Democratic...
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    The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic...
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  • Active rire protection AGA – American Gas Association AGRU – acid gas removal unit AGT – (1) agitator, used in drilling AGT – (2) authorised gas tester (certified...
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    chlorine or mustard gas), or particulates (such as biological agents). Many filters provide protection from both types. The first gas masks mostly used...
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    Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane...
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    Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
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    unusual, type is the free-piston gas generator, which combines the functions of compressor and combustion chamber in one unit. Most high-compression jet engine...
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  • Acid gas is a particular typology of natural gas or any other gas mixture containing significant quantities of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbon dioxide (CO2)...
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    Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth. What distinguishes them from other...
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    is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring...
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  • An asphyxiant gas, also known as a simple asphyxiant, is a nontoxic or minimally toxic gas which reduces or displaces the normal oxygen concentration in...
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    Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from...
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    medium: Air Gas (SF6 or mixtures) Oil Vacuum Carbon dioxide (CO2) By construction type: Indoor (further classified by IP (Ingress Protection) class or NEMA...
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  • of them happening, conventionally indicated by the unit sievert. Fundamental to radiation protection is the avoidance or reduction of dose using the simple...
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    M50: Gas mask made to replace existing gas masks in use by the US military. M51: Consisting of a M50 gas mask with a CVC hood for head/neck protection and...
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    petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically...
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    industries, which include oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, mining, steelmaking, metals, environmental protection, medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology...
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  • Retrieved 16 October 2020. "Avon Rubber Completes Buy of 3M Ballistic Protection Unit". GovCon Wire. 3 January 2020. "3M's military armor business fetches...
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  • Thumbnail for Bhopal disaster
    The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide...
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    very cheap due to being one of the most produced gas masks. The GP-5 is a simple gas mask with protection around the entire head, and a single metal ringed...
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    experiment before cathodic protection was used widely on oil pipelines in the United States — cathodic protection was applied to steel gas pipelines beginning...
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    Geiger counter (category Radiation protection)
    widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental physics and the nuclear industry. It detects ionizing radiation...
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    The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland...
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    States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about changes in water quality from their domestic wells. Encana was the primary natural gas producer in the area...
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    Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (category Equivalent units)
    the average distance traveled per unit of energy consumed. MPGe is used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to compare energy consumption...
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    GAIL (India) Limited (formerly known as Gas Authority of India Ltd.) is an Indian state-owned energy corporation with primary interests in the trade,...
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  • Ionization chamber (category Radiation protection)
    radiation protection, and environmental monitoring. A gas ionization chamber measures the charge from the number of ion pairs created within a gas caused...
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    prepared for the introduction of poison gas as a weapon. Once gas was introduced, development of gas protection began and the process continued for much...
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  • exposed to the gas. Preliminary investigations concluded that the accident was likely the result of insufficient maintenance of units storing the styrene...
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    CBRN defense (redirect from NBC protection)
    nuclear defense (CBRN defense) or Nuclear, biological, and chemical protection (NBC protection) is a class of protective measures taken in situations where chemical...
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