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    entered service at around the same time. The UK began development of its Blowpipe in 1975, but placed the seeker on the launcher instead of the missile itself...
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    The main MANPADS used by both sides during the Falklands War was the Blowpipe missile.[citation needed] In late 1985, several groups, such as Free the...
    65 KB (6,311 words) - 07:03, 27 July 2024
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    is completed in a Verneuil furnace. The furnace consists of an inverted blowpipe burner which produces an extremely hot oxyhydrogen flame, a powder dispenser...
    60 KB (6,790 words) - 20:23, 1 August 2024
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    involves an inverted oxyhydrogen blowpipe, with purified feed powder mixed with oxygen that is carefully fed through the blowpipe. The feed powder falls through...
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    the Chalcolithic period, crucibles were heated from the top by using blowpipes. Ceramic crucibles from this time had slight modifications to their designs...
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    pressure which urges the flame of a candle towards the stream of air from a blowpipe is probably exactly similar to that pressure which eases the inflection...
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  • his weaponry. Blowpipe Compression cannon The Rebirth (Part 2,3) John Moschitta, Jr. The conniving brother-in-law of Lord Zarak, Blowpipe managed the political...
    364 KB (2,352 words) - 06:54, 10 August 2024
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    degree, leading to the introduction of the FIM-43 Redeye, SA-7 Grail and Blowpipe. Rapid improvement in the 1980s led to second generation designs, like...
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    Mine Protected Vehicle (MMPV) program. In 2009, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) interrogation variant was purchased by the Dutch Army with a hydraulic...
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    hydrogen and oxygen in 1806. Edward Daniel Clarke invented the hydrogen gas blowpipe in 1819. The Döbereiner's lamp and limelight were invented in 1823. Hydrogen...
    122 KB (12,452 words) - 09:14, 5 August 2024
  • depicted that Batman hid a few pieces of his arsenal in his boots, such as a blowpipe (its length made it impossible to fit in Batman's belt compartment) with...
    115 KB (17,069 words) - 03:29, 24 July 2024
  • chemicals/drugs. In Batman: Year One, this is replaced (or possibly preceded) by a blowpipe kept in one of the boots. Glue globules: Small round globules of concentrated...
    27 KB (2,668 words) - 17:09, 8 July 2024
  • 2500 BP. Beads are made by attaching molten glass gather to the end of a blowpipe, a bubble is then blown into the gather. The glass blown vessels were rarely...
    185 KB (21,026 words) - 10:08, 7 August 2024
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    mass of hot semi-molten glass, inflating it into a bubble using a hollow blowpipe, and forming it into the required shape by blowing, swinging, rolling,...
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  • 1988. "Television listings". Detroit Free Press. January 11, 1989. "Blowpipes and Bulldozers". Bullfrog Films, Inc. Retrieved 2016-05-31. "Television...
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  • Allowing the pull of gravity to stretch and bend hot glass while on the blowpipe or punty led Littleton to his "Folded Forms" and "Loops" series, which...
    37 KB (5,215 words) - 13:51, 12 November 2023