The test apparatus consists of a mass of 5 kg with a 40 mm x 30 mm striking face, dropped onto the sample mounted on top of a 50 mm radius hemispherical dome.
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The test apparatus cost a pittance and centered on palladium rods in a jar of heavy water, in which normal hydrogen is replaced by deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen that is ubiquitous in sea water.
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The test apparatus set up together with M . Cavallini and G . Gallinaro [ 2 ] offered great advantages with respect to conventional techniques used at that time and reduced the cost of building beam machines.
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In case of billing complaints, a test apparatus allowed scanning through all the lines in an office at the rate of about a hundred per minute, to find which ones were translated to a particular billing number.
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The "'Wisconsin General Test Apparatus "', also known as the WGTA, is a piece of manually operated laboratory equipment created by the collaborative effort of Dr . Paul Settlage and Dr . Walter Grether to test learning in primates.
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"In my experience in fires, in 30 years, this is the hottest fire I've ever seen in the test apparatus, " said Birky, who is also the lead fire expert in the investigation of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which crashed off Long Island on July 17.
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NASA has been using two-stage light-gas guns to simulate 2.2-cm diameter micrometeoid and orbital debris at velocities in excess of 7.5 km / s for decades and in 2005, Bigelow Aerospace utilized an earthbound test apparatus firing 1.7-cm-diameter aluminum projectiles into its inflatable spacecraft multilayer shield technology at 7 km / s.
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A 2002 study sponsored by Genesis Laboratories, Inc . ( the maker of the Pest-A-Cator / Riddex series of electronic repellent devices ) does lend some credence to the ability of electronic repellent devices to repel certain pests in controlled environments . Preliminary study of white-footed mice behavior in the test apparatus demonstrated a significant preference for the non-activated chamber among both sexes .
