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  2. Chemical Abstracts Service - Wikipedia

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    According to CAS, his visionary view of CAS' potential "led to expansion, modernization, and the forging of international alliances with other information organizations." [15] CAS was an early leader in the use of computer technology to organize and disseminate information. [16] The CAS Chemical Registry System was introduced in 1965.

  3. Wikipedia talk : WikiProject Chemistry/CAS validation

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    CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers ® for current substances listed in Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal that are of widespread general public interest.

  4. Non-reversing mirror - Wikipedia

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    The thousands of tiny mirrors are angled to create a surface that curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image. [1] A patent for a non-reversing mirror was issued to John Joseph Hooker in 1887. [2]

  5. Mercury mirror - Wikipedia

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    Mercury mirror can mean: A glass mirror created by mercury silvering. Mercury glass mirror; A component of liquid-mirror telescopes This page was last edited on ...

  6. Deformable mirror - Wikipedia

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    The VLT’s Deformable Secondary Mirror [2] Number of actuators determines the number of degrees of freedom (wavefront inflections) the mirror can correct. It is very common to compare an arbitrary DM to an ideal device that can perfectly reproduce wavefront modes in the form of Zernike polynomials. For predefined statistics of aberrations a ...

  7. Catadioptric system - Wikipedia

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    Léon Foucault developed a catadioptric microscope in 1859 to counteract aberrations of using a lens to image objects at high power. [2] In 1876 a French engineer, A. Mangin, invented what has come to be called the Mangin mirror, a concave glass reflector with the silver surface on the rear side of the glass. The two surfaces of the reflector ...

  8. Foucault knife-edge test - Wikipedia

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    From top: Parabolic mirror showing Foucault shadow patterns made by knife edge inside radius of curvature R (red X), at R and outside R. Foucault testing is commonly used by amateur telescope makers for figuring primary mirrors in reflecting telescopes. [5] [6] The mirror to be tested is placed vertically in a stand. The Foucault tester is set ...

  9. First-surface mirror - Wikipedia

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    A first-surface mirror or front-surface mirror (also commonly abbreviated FS mirror or FSM) is a mirror with the reflective surface being above a backing, as opposed to the conventional, second-surface mirror with the reflective surface behind a transparent substrate such as glass or acrylic.