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  • 31Surface grub — Surface Sur face , n. [F. See {Sur }, and {Face}, and cf. {Superficial}.] 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the… …

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  • 32Surface plate — Surface Sur face , n. [F. See {Sur }, and {Face}, and cf. {Superficial}.] 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the… …

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  • 33Surface printing — Surface Sur face , n. [F. See {Sur }, and {Face}, and cf. {Superficial}.] 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the… …

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  • 34The School for Scandal — Robert Baddeley as Moses (painting by Johann Zoffany, c.1781) Written b …

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  • 35Surface Marker Buoy — (standard) = A Surface Marker Buoy, SMB or simply a blob is an inflatable buoy used by SCUBA divers, with a line, to mark the diver s position to their surface, safety boat while the diver is underwater.SMBs are inflated on the surface before… …

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  • 36Surface photovoltage — (SPV) measurements are a widely used method to determine the minority carrier diffusion length of semiconductors. Since the transport of minority carriers determines the behavior of the p n junctions that are ubiquitous in semiconductor devices,… …

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  • 37Surface piercing — Surface piercings are any body piercings that take place on the surface of the body through areas which are not particularly concave or convex, where the piercing canal transverses a surface flap of skin, rather than running completely through a… …

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  • 38Surface forces apparatus — The surface force apparatus (SFA) is a scientific instrument and technique pioneered by D. Tabor, R.H.S. Winterton, J.N. Israelachvili in the early 1970s at Cambridge University. By the mid 70 s Israelachvili had adapted the original design to… …

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  • 39Surface metrology — is the measuring of small scale features on surfaces, and is a branch of Metrology. Surface primary form, surface waviness and surface roughness are the parameters most commonly associated with the field. It is important to many disciplines and… …

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  • 40Surface states — are electronic states found at the surface of materials and are part of condensed matter physics. They are formed due to the sharp transition from solid material that ends with a surface and are found only at the atom layers closest to the… …

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