- A
metal detector is an
instrument that
detects the
nearby presence of metal.
Metal detectors are
useful for
finding metal objects on the surface, underground...
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nuclear physics, and
nuclear engineering, a
particle detector, also
known as a
radiation detector, is a
device used to detect, track, and/or
identify ionizing...
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defect detectors included infrared sensors for hotboxes,
wires outlining the
clearance envelope to
detect high and wide loads, and "brittle
bars" – frangible...
- A gravitational-wave
detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any
device designed to
measure tiny
distortions of
spacetime called gravitational...
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antiparticles should be equal.
Analysis of
secondary particles produced in the Ba
Bar detector showed this was not the case – in the
summer of 2002,
definitive results...
- An
aspirating smoke detector (ASD) is a
system used in
active fire protection,
consisting of a
central detection unit
which draws air
through a network...
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gravitational waves in the 1960s
through his work on
resonant m****
bar detectors.
Bar detectors continue to be used at six
sites worldwide. By the 1970s, scientists...
- The ring-imaging Cherenkov, or RICH,
detector is a
device for
identifying the type of an
electrically charged subatomic particle of
known momentum, that...
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Weber bar – a large,
solid bar of
metal isolated from
outside vibrations. This type of
instrument was the
first type of
gravitational wave
detector. Strains...
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Spouts U.S.
patent 925,345 New and
useful Improvements in
Switch and
Detector-
Bar Throwing Mechanism U.S.
patent 1,111,905
Certain New and
useful Improvements...
