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  2. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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  3. Optical disc packaging - Wikipedia

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    Stacks of compact disc jewel cases. Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs.Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage.

  4. Optical instrument - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of some of the optical devices available for laboratory work in England in 1858. An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic properties.

  5. Beam splitter - Wikipedia

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    In its most common form, a cube, a beam splitter is made from two triangular glass prisms which are glued together at their base using polyester, epoxy, or urethane-based adhesives.

  6. Optical fiber - Wikipedia

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    A bundle of optical fibers A TOSLINK fiber optic audio cable with red light shone in one end. An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light [a] from one end to the other.

  7. Hydrometer - Wikipedia

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    Schematic drawing of a hydrometer. The lower the density of the fluid, the deeper the weighted float B sinks. The depth is read off the scale A.. A hydrometer or lactometer is an instrument used for measuring density or relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy.

  8. Optical disc authoring - Wikipedia

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    A burnt Sony DVD holding a pirated copy of The Simpsons Movie. To burn an optical disc, one usually first creates an optical disc image with a full file system, of a type designed for the optical disc, in temporary storage such as a file in another file system on a disk drive.