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  2. BoPET - Wikipedia

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    BoPET film was developed in the mid-1950s, [6] [7] originally by DuPont, [6] Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), and Hoechst. In 1953 Buckminster Fuller used Mylar as a skin for a geodesic dome, which he built with students at the University of Oregon. [8] In 1955 Eastman Kodak used Mylar as a support for photographic film and called it "ESTAR ...

  3. Space blanket - Wikipedia

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    layering materials of emergency blanket 32 layers are 0.45mm thick. First developed by NASA ' s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 for the US space program, [2] [3] [4] the material comprises a thin sheet of plastic (often PET film) that is coated with a metallic, reflecting agent, making it metallized polyethylene terephthalate (MPET) that is usually gold or silver in color, which reflects ...

  4. Kapton - Wikipedia

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    The thermal conductivity of Kapton at temperatures from 0.5 to 5 Kelvin is rather high for such low temperatures, κ = 4.638×10 −3 T 0.5678 W·m −1 ·K −1. [7] Kapton insulation ages poorly: an FAA study shows degradation in hot, humid environments [8] or in the presence of seawater. It was found to have very poor resistance to ...

  5. Polyethylene terephthalate - Wikipedia

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    E. I. DuPont de Nemours in Delaware, United States, first produced Dacron (PET fiber) in 1950 and used the trademark Mylar (boPET film) in June 1951 and received registration of it in 1952. [27] [28] It is still the best-known name used for polyester film. The current owner of the trademark is DuPont Teijin Films. [29]

  6. Detasheet - Wikipedia

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    DuPont ceased manufacturing explosives in the 1990s and when they did the Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company bought their product line, including all their equipment and trademarks. The Detasheet trademark is now owned by the Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company , which has been selling an identical explosive sheet product ...

  7. BYD on track to top 2024 sales goal and outsell Ford, Honda - AOL

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    China's top electric vehicle maker BYD gained market share as the world's largest auto market recorded its fastest-growing month in 2024, setting BYD up to exceed its global annual sales goal and ...

  8. 2 men accused of operating drones 'dangerously close' to ...

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    Mayorkas said Sunday that more than 1 million drones are registered in the U.S., that there are thousands of recreational and commercial drones flown every day − and that a 2023 FAA rule allowed ...

  9. PDF/A - Wikipedia

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    PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...