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  2. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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    Diamond plates can serve many purposes including sharpening steel tools, and for maintaining the flatness of man-made waterstones, which can become grooved or hollowed in use. Truing (flattening a stone whose shape has been changed as it wears away) is widely considered essential to the sharpening process but some hand sharpening techniques ...

  3. Sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Video: Saw blade sharpening machine Edge/Apex of a knife after sharpening and stropping. Although this edge is sharp enough to bite a thumbnail, cut paper smoothly, or shave arm hair, the microscope plainly shows an edge which reflects light back into the lens. A truly sharp edge is too thin to reflect significant light.

  4. Unibit - Wikipedia

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    Unibit may refer to: Unibit (drill bit), a roughly conical drill bit with a stairstep profile; Unibit (unit), 1 bit of information; Unibit PLL, a type of phase-locked ...

  5. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Diamond stones can be useful in the sharpening process. Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance known and as such can be used to sharpen almost any material. [8] (Coarse diamond sharpening stones can be used for flattening waterstones. [8] [9]) Alternatively, tungsten carbide blades can be used in knife sharpening. A clamp-on knife ...

  6. Drill bit - Wikipedia

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    They can be used on very thin sheet metal, but metals tend to cause premature bit wear and dulling. Unibits are ideal for use in electrical work where thin steel, aluminum or plastic boxes and chassis are encountered. The short length of the unibit and ability to vary the diameter of the finished hole is an advantage in chassis or front panel work.

  7. Pencil sharpener - Wikipedia

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    A manual prism sharpener generates long fan-shaped shavings Video of a mechanical pencil sharpener, showing gearing and helical sharpening blades video showing a manual prism sharpener A pencil sharpener (or pencil pointer , or in Ireland a parer or topper [ 1 ] ) is a tool for sharpening a pencil 's writing point by shaving away its worn surface.

  8. Depleted uranium - Wikipedia

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    Because of its high density, depleted uranium can also be used in tank armor, sandwiched between sheets of steel armor plate. For instance, some late-production M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams tanks built after 1998 have DU modules integrated into their Chobham armor , as part of the armor plating in the front of the turret, and there is a program to ...