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  2. Glass bead road surface marking - Wikipedia

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    Glass beads composed of soda lime glass are essential for providing retroreflectivity in many kinds of road surface markings. [1] Retroreflectivity occurs when incident light from vehicles is refracted within glass beads that are imbedded in road surface markings and then reflected back into the driver's field of view. [ 2 ]

  3. Prices of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects ... Per-kilogram prices of some synthetic radioisotopes range to trillions of dollars. ... 3×10 −20 [ax] (8.31 × 10 −4 kg ...

  4. Bead - Wikipedia

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    A selection of glass beads Merovingian bead Trade beads, 18th century Trade beads, 18th century. A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.

  5. List of physical properties of glass - Wikipedia

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    Soda–lime glass (for containers) [2] Borosilicate (low expansion, similar to Pyrex, Duran) Glass wool (for thermal insulation) Special optical glass (similar to Lead crystal) Fused silica Germania glass Germanium selenide glass Chemical composition, wt% 74 SiO 2, 13 Na 2 O, 10.5 CaO, 1.3 Al 2 O 3, 0.3 K 2 O, 0.2 SO 3, 0.2 MgO, 0.01 TiO 2, 0. ...

  6. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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    Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.

  7. The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text ...

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    The Federal Trade Commission said there were no task scams in 2020, there were 5,000 in 2023 and then task scams quadrupled by the first half of 2024.

  8. Apple's answer to getting people to watch TV+: a weekend freebie.

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    A free weekend to binge season one of "Severance" has the potential to bring customers back to watch season two when it releases. However, according to Bloomberg earlier this year, AppleTV+ was ...

  9. Prince Rupert's drop - Wikipedia

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    Prince Rupert's drops have remained a scientific curiosity for nearly 400 years due to two unusual mechanical properties: [4] when the tail is snipped, the drop disintegrates explosively into powder, whereas the bulbous head can withstand compressive forces of up to 664,300 newtons (67,740 kg f).