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62 relations: Advanced Crew Escape Suit, AERCam Sprint, Aircraft pilot, Aramid, Arene substitution pattern, Aromaticity, ATLAS experiment, Auto racing, Baghouse, Balaclava (clothing), BoPET, Calender, Cassini–Huygens, Cockpit, Condensation polymer, Crew Exploration Vehicle, Dave MacDonald, DuPont, Eddie Sachs, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Extravehicular Mobility Unit, Face, Fire, Fireball Roberts, Firefighter, Firefighting, Flame retardant, Flight suit, Galileo (spacecraft), Gore-Tex, Heat, Helmet, Honeycomb structure, Human head, Insulator (electricity), Isophthalic acid, Kevlar, Lavoisier Medal, List of fire-retardant materials, Loudspeaker, M-Phenylenediamine, Marlan, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Pathfinder, Marvin Panch, Masten Gregory, Meta- (chemistry), Military, Monomer, Nylon, ..., Phenol formaldehyde resin, Racing helmet, Racing suit, Riverside International Raceway, Space Shuttle, Stephanie Kwolek, Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment, Titan (moon), Twaron, Vectran, Walt Hansgen, Wildfire suppression. Expand index (12 more) »
Advanced Crew Escape Suit
The Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) or "pumpkin suit", is a full pressure suit that began to be worn by Space Shuttle crews after STS-65, for the ascent and entry portions of flight.
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AERCam Sprint
The Autonomous Extravehicular Activity Robotic Camera Sprint (AERCam Sprint) is a NASA experiment to demonstrate the use of a prototype free-flying television camera.
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Aircraft pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.
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Aramid
Aramid fibers are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers.
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Arene substitution pattern
Arene substitution patterns are part of organic chemistry IUPAC nomenclature and pinpoint the position of substituents other than hydrogen in relation to each other on an aromatic hydrocarbon.
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Aromaticity
In organic chemistry, the term aromaticity is used to describe a cyclic (ring-shaped), planar (flat) molecule with a ring of resonance bonds that exhibits more stability than other geometric or connective arrangements with the same set of atoms.
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ATLAS experiment
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the seven particle detector experiments constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.
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Auto racing
Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.
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Baghouse
A baghouse (BH, B/H), bag filter (BF) or fabric filter (FF) is an air pollution control device that removes particulates out of air or gas released from commercial processes or combustion for electricity generation.
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Balaclava (clothing)
A balaclava, also known as a balaclava helmet or ski mask, is a form of cloth headgear designed to expose only part of the face.
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BoPET
BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties, and electrical insulation.
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Calender
A calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to finish or smooth a sheet of material such as paper, textiles, or plastics.
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Cassini–Huygens
The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
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Cockpit
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.
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Condensation polymer
Condensation polymers are any kind of polymers formed through a condensation reaction—where molecules join together—losing small molecules as byproducts such as water or methanol.
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Crew Exploration Vehicle
The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) was the conceptual component of the U.S. NASA Vision for Space Exploration that later became known as the Orion spacecraft.
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Dave MacDonald
David George MacDonald (July 23, 1936 – May 30, 1964) was an American road racing champion noted for his successes driving Corvettes and Shelby Cobras in the early 1960s.
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Eddie Sachs
Edward Julius Sachs Jr, (May 28, 1927 – May 30, 1964) was a United States Auto Club driver who was known as the "Clown Prince of Auto Racing." He coined the phrase "If you can't win, be spectacular." Sachs was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008.
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Extravehicular Mobility Unit
The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is an independent anthropomorphic spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts performing extravehicular activity (EVA) in Earth orbit.
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Face
The face is a central body region of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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Fireball Roberts
Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Jr. (January 20, 1929July 2, 1964) was an American stock car racer.
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Firefighter
A firefighter is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property and the environment as well as to rescue people and animals from dangerous situations.
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Firefighting
Firefighting is the act of attempting to prevent the spread of and extinguish significant unwanted fires in buildings, vehicles, woodlands, etc.
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Flame retardant
The term flame retardants subsumes a diverse group of chemicals which are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings.
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Flight suit
A flight suit is a full-body garment, worn while flying aircraft such as military airplanes, gliders and helicopters.
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Galileo (spacecraft)
Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
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Gore-Tex
Gore-Tex is a waterproof, breathable fabric membrane and registered trademark of W. L. Gore and Associates.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.
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Helmet
A helmet is a form of protective gear worn to protect the head from injuries.
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Honeycomb structure
Honeycomb structures are natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb to allow the minimization of the amount of used material to reach minimal weight and minimal material cost.
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Human head
In human anatomy, the head is the upper portion of the human body.
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Insulator (electricity)
An electrical insulator is a material whose internal electric charges do not flow freely; very little electric current will flow through it under the influence of an electric field.
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Isophthalic acid
Isophthalic acid is an organic compound with the formula C6H4(CO2H)2.
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Kevlar
Kevlar is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.
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Lavoisier Medal
A Lavoisier Medal is an award named and given in honor of Antoine Lavoisier, considered by some to be a father of modern chemistry.
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List of fire-retardant materials
Fire-retardant materials should not be confused with fire-resistant materials.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker) is an electroacoustic transducer; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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M-Phenylenediamine
m-Phenylenediamine, also called 1,3-diaminobenzene, is an organic compound with the formula C6H4(NH2)2.
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Marlan
Marlan may refer to.
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Mars Exploration Rover
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
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Mars Pathfinder
Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997.
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Marvin Panch
Marvin Panch (May 28, 1926December 31, 2015) was an American stock car racing driver.
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Masten Gregory
Masten Gregory (February 29, 1932 − November 8, 1985) was an American racing driver.
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Meta- (chemistry)
In chemistry, meta is a prefix, used for systematic names in IUPAC nomenclature.
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Military
A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.
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Monomer
A monomer (mono-, "one" + -mer, "part") is a molecule that "can undergo polymerization thereby contributing constitutional units to the essential structure of a macromolecule".
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Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.
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Phenol formaldehyde resin
Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) or phenolic resins are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde.
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Racing helmet
A racing helmet is a form of protective headgear worn by racing car and rally drivers.
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Racing suit
A Racing Suit or Racing Overalls, often referred to as a Fire Suit due to its fire retardant properties, is the clothing worn in various forms of auto racing by racing drivers, crew members who work on the vehicles during races, track safety workers or marshals, and in some series commentators at the event.
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Riverside International Raceway
Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as RIV, RIR, or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Moreno Valley, California.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.
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Stephanie Kwolek
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist of Polish heritage, whose career at the DuPont company spanned over 40 years.
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Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment
An (Integrated) Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment (TMG or ITMG) is the outer layer of a space suit.
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Titan (moon)
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn.
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Twaron
Twaron (a brand name of Teijin Aramid) is a para-aramid.
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Vectran
Vectran is a manufactured fiber, spun from a liquid-crystal polymer (LCP) created by Celanese Corporation and now manufactured by Kuraray.
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Walt Hansgen
Walter Edwin Hansgen (October 28, 1919 in Westfield, New Jersey – April 7, 1966 in Orléans, France) was a racecar driver from the United States.
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Wildfire suppression
Wildfire suppression is a range of firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomex
