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  2. Color blind glasses - Wikipedia

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    Color blind glasses or color correcting lenses are light filters, usually in the form of glasses or contact lenses, that attempt to alleviate color blindness, by bringing deficient color vision closer to normal color vision or to make certain color tasks easier to accomplish. Despite its viral status, the academic literature is generally ...

  3. Contact lens - Wikipedia

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    Contact lens. A pair of contact lenses, positioned with the concave side facing upward. Putting contacts in and taking them out. One-day disposable contact lenses with blue handling tint in blister-pack packaging. Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic ...

  4. Brillo Pad - Wikipedia

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    Brillo is a trade name for a scouring pad, used for cleaning dishes, and made from steel wool filled with soap. [ 1] The concept was patented in 1913, at a time when aluminium pots and pans were replacing cast iron in the kitchen; the new cookware blackened easily. The company's website states the name Brillo is from the Latin word for "bright ...

  5. Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic aberration. Focal length of lens varies with the color of light. In optics, chromatic aberration ( CA ), also called chromatic distortion, color aberration, color fringing, or purple fringing, is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. [ 1][ 2] It is caused by dispersion: the refractive index of the lens elements ...

  6. S.O.S Soap Pad - Wikipedia

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    The soap is the blue substance seen in the pad. S.O.S Soap Pad is a trade name for an abrasive cleaning pad, used for household cleaning, and made from steel wool saturated with soap. In 1917, Irwin Cox of San Francisco, California, an aluminum pot salesman, invented a pre-soaped pad with which to clean pots. As a way of introducing himself to ...

  7. FTC bans marketing of Kinoki Cleansing Detox Foot Pads - AOL

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    As reason for pulling the plug on the over-the-top infomercials, the agency cited the Kinoki marketers falsely claimed the foot pads were effective in treating a host of medical conditions.

  8. Pad printing - Wikipedia

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    Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object (e.g., a ceramic pottery ). This is accomplished using an indirect offset ( gravure) printing process that involves an image being transferred from the cliché via a silicone pad onto a substrate. Pad printing is used for printing on ...

  9. Macaroon vs Macaron: Do You Really Know Which One's Which? - AOL

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    No, they are not the same. The difference between them is one ingredient: macarons have ground almonds and macaroons have shredded coconut. Despite their differences, both petit cookies contain ...