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| Discovered by K. Onnes is 1911. |
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| This makes your calculator calculate. |
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| Constant of proportionality in Hooke's Law. |
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| A low value of this property is imperative for glass telescope mirrors. |
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| Property est measured by the percent reduction in cross-sectional area. |
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| Heats your food or cools your food depending which way the current flows. |
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| Involves a critical temperature below which the electrical resistivity is truly zero. |
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| This phenomenon causes electric power transformer cores to heat up while in service. |
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| Phenomenon associated with ultrasonic cleaners, sonar, and stereo record players. |
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| Makes electric transformers hum (But it's not because they don't know the words!) |
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| Property of major importance in the design and favrication of glass fiver optic filaments. |
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| This must be improved for kitchen cookware fabricated from austenitic stainless steel. |
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| The most important mechanical property for safe use of steel structures (not yield strength). |
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| In conventional design of steel structures, this tensile property is of primary importance. |
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