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Gas focusing — Gas focusing, also known as ionic focusing. Rather than being dispersed, a beam of charged particles travelling in an inert gas environment sometimes becomes narrower. This is ascribed to the generation of gas ions which diffuse outwards,… …   Wikipedia

Corner Gas — The Corner Gas logo Format Comedy Created by Brent Butt Starring Brent Butt …   Wikipedia

IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme — The IEA Greenhouse Gas R D Programme (IEA GHG) is an Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency, and was founded in 1991. IEA GHG is an international collaborative research programme focusing its efforts on studying technologies to …   Wikipedia

JKX Oil & Gas — Infobox Company company name = JKX Oil Gas plc company company type = Public (LSE|JKX) foundation = 1995 [cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2003%2F05%2F24%2Fcxquest24.xml|title=The Questor Column: Caution… …   Wikipedia

Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway — Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway Kasumigaseki Station, one of the many stations affected during the attack Location Tokyo, Japan …   Wikipedia

Teleforce — was Nikola Tesla s charged particle beam projector, first mentioned publicly in the New York Sun on July 10, 1934. IntroductionThe term teleforce refers to Nikola Tesla s macroscopic charged particle beam projector. The device was based upon a… …   Wikipedia

mass spectrometry — or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. A mass spectrometer uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions, while a mass spectrograph …   Universalium

particle accelerator — accelerator (def. 7). [1945 50] * * * Device that accelerates a beam of fast moving, electrically charged atoms (ions) or subatomic particles. Accelerators are used to study the structure of atomic nuclei (see atom) and the nature of subatomic… …   Universalium

literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

microscope — /muy kreuh skohp /, n. 1. an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye. 2. (cap.) Astron. the… …   Universalium

X-ray astronomy — X rays start at 0.008 nm and extend across the electromagnetic spectrum to 8 nm, over which the Earth s atmosphere is opaque. X ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X ray observation and detection… …   Wikipedia