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  2. Crystal system - Wikipedia

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    A crystal system is a set of point groups in which the point groups themselves and their corresponding space groups are assigned to a lattice system. Of the 32 crystallographic point groups that exist in three dimensions, most are assigned to only one lattice system, in which case both the crystal and lattice systems have the same name. However ...

  3. Vipin Khanna - Wikipedia

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    Vipin Kumar Khanna (14 December 1930 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian businessman, financier and army officer. Khanna had diverse business interests. He founded Dynamic Sales Service International, a commodities trading and marketing company, which further expanded into railways, infrastructure, telecommunications equipment, shipbroking, fast-moving consumer goods and additional industries.

  4. List of the United States military installations in Iraq

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    Near the end of Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), the last several camps and forward operating bases were changed to contingency operating bases and sites. At the height of the occupation the US had 170,000 men and women in uniform stationed in 505 bases sprinkled throughout all the provinces of Iraq.

  5. Triangular prism - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a triangular prism or trigonal prism [1] is a prism with 2 triangular bases. If the edges pair with each triangle's vertex and if they are perpendicular to the base, it is a right triangular prism. A right triangular prism may be both semiregular and uniform. The triangular prism can be used in constructing another polyhedron.

  6. Pine Gap - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, the base began operating a new satellite system known as the Space-Based Infrared System, which is a vital element of US missile defence. [10] Since the end of the Cold War, the station has mainly been employed to intercept and record weapons and communications signals from countries in Asia, such as China and North Korea.

  7. SI base unit - Wikipedia

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    The SI system after 1983, but before the 2019 revision: Dependence of base unit definitions on other base units (for example, the metre is defined as the distance travelled by light in a specific fraction of a second), with the constants of nature and artefacts used to define them (such as the mass of the IPK for the kilogram).

  8. ECHELON - Wikipedia

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    Lawmakers in the United States feared that the ECHELON system could be used to monitor US citizens. [33] According to The New York Times, the ECHELON system has been "shrouded in such secrecy that its very existence has been difficult to prove." [33] Critics said the ECHELON system emerged from the Cold War as a "Big Brother without a cause". [34]

  9. Cover test - Wikipedia

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    The type of deviation: whether it be eso, exo, hyper, hypo or cyclo tropia. The size of the deviation: slight, small, moderate or large; Speed to take up fixation: if the eye takes up fixation fast it means there is good vision in that eye