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  2. Tombac - Wikipedia

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    Tombac, or tombak, is a brass alloy with high copper content and 5–20% zinc content. [1] Tin , lead or arsenic may be added for colouration. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a cheap malleable alloy mainly used for medals , ornament , decoration and some munitions .

  3. Button collecting - Wikipedia

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    The most satisfying phase of button collecting, however, will be the study which each button affords as to material or identification of subject or design. It entails the perusing of volume after volume of history and art and costuming; dating a button by shank or material; researching for characteristics of buttons of various countries; and ...

  4. Silicon tombac - Wikipedia

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    Silicon tombac has good friction bearing characteristics and is corrosion resistant but is not resistant to ammonia atmosphere. The strength properties are largely retained at application temperatures up to 200 °C. [1] It is a special alloy in terms of the combination of casting process and casting temperature.

  5. Automated firearms identification - Wikipedia

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    Automated Firearms Identification has its roots in the United States, the country with the highest per capita firearms ownership. [1] [2] In 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation commissioned Mnemonics Systems Inc. to develop Drugfire, which enabled law enforcement agencies to capture images of cartridge casings into computers, and automate the process of comparing a suspect cartridge ...

  6. List of mass spectrometry software - Wikipedia

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    SimTandem is a database search engine for identification of peptide sequences from LC/MS/MS data. The engine can be used as an external tool in OpenMS/TOPP. [23] SQID Open source: SeQuence IDentification (SQID) is an intensity-incorporated protein identification algorithm for tandem mass spectrometry. Tide (rewrite of Crux) Open source

  7. Amazon Dash - Wikipedia

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    The Dash Button and Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) were introduced by Amazon.com on March 31, 2015. Due to the timing of the announcement, there were a number of news stories questioning whether the Dash Button was an early April Fools joke. [7] [8] The Amazon Dash Button is a small electronic device designed to make ordering products easy ...

  8. Obsolete badges of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    Corps of Intelligence Police Identification Badge: Replaced by Counterintelligence Special Agent Identification Badge on 13 December 1941 Counterintelligence Special Agent Identification Badge: Replaced with a different design between 1947 and 1948 Distinguished Automatic Rifleman Badge: Retired in the late 1940s or early 1950s [9] [10] [11]

  9. Buzzer - Wikipedia

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    Sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has been pressed are a click, a ring or a beep. Interior of a readymade loudspeaker, showing a piezoelectric-disk-beeper (With 3 electrodes ... including 1 feedback-electrode ( the central, small electrode joined with red wire in this photo), and an oscillator to self-drive the buzzer.