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  2. Sandpaper - Wikipedia

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    Sandpaper, also known as coated abrasive, is a type of material that consists of sheets of paper or cloth with an abrasive substance glued to one face. [1] In the modern manufacture of these products, sand and glass have been replaced by other abrasives such as aluminium oxide or silicon carbide.

  3. Silicon carbide - Wikipedia

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    Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum (/ ˌ k ɑːr b ə ˈ r ʌ n d əm /), is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon. A wide bandgap semiconductor , it occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral moissanite , but has been mass-produced as a powder and crystal since 1893 for use as an abrasive .

  4. Silicon - Wikipedia

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    Silicon is a chemical element; it has the symbol Si and the atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium are below it. It is relatively ...

  5. Edward Goodrich Acheson - Wikipedia

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    By 1910 its dynamos were generating 10,000 hp of electricity and producing ten million pounds of silicon carbide per year. Twenty years later it was “supplying the world with enough silicon carbide to influence the entire metallurgical, stone, abrasive paper, leather, jewelry, rice, and high temperature electrical heating element industries ...

  6. Silicon Graphics Image - Wikipedia

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    Image name. Image name, 80-byte (maximum 79 characters ≠ 0x00) C string. If the name is shorter than 79 characters, all subsequent bytes are 0x00 to fill the 80-byte space. Color Map ID. SGI supports 4 types of color mapping: 0x00 normal: image has 1 channel (greyscale), 3 channels (RGB) or 4 channels (RGBA). 0x01 dithered: image has packed ...

  7. SiBeam - Wikipedia

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    On January 5, 2015 Silicon Image Re-Launched SiBEAM, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary to drive market development of millimeter-wave products, technologies and solutions [buzzword] [16] On March 15, 2015, Silicon Image was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor in an all-cash acquisition, valued at approximately $606.6 million (or approximately ...

  8. Sand - Wikipedia

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    Sand animation: Performance artists draw images in sand. Makers of animated films use the same term to describe their use of sand on frontlit or backlit glass. Sand casting: Casters moisten or oil molding sand, also known as foundry sand and then shape it into molds into which they pour molten material. This type of sand must be able to ...

  9. Sandblasting - Wikipedia

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    The most abrasive are shot blasting (with metal shot) and sandblasting (with sand). Moderately abrasive variants include glass bead blasting (with glass beads) and plastic media blasting (PMB) with ground-up plastic stock or walnut shells and corncobs. Some of these substances can cause anaphylactic shock to individuals allergic to the media. [3]