Single-spread

Spread (adhesive spread)—The quantity of adhesive per unit joint area applied to an adherend, usually expressed in points of adhesive per thousand square feet of joint area.(l) Single spread refers to the application of adhesive to only one adherend of a joint. (2) Double spread refers to application of adhesive to both adherends of a joint. 

Fracture Mirror. A very smooth, reflective fracture surface indicating that the fracture was moving relatively slowly along a single spreading front. 

Precision is a measure of the spread of data about a central value and may be expressed as the range, the standard deviation, or the variance. Precision is commonly divided into two categories repeatability and reproducibility. Repeatability is the precision obtained when all measurements are made by the same analyst during a single period of laboratory work, using the same solutions and equipment. Reproducibility, on the other hand, is the precision obtained under any other set of conditions, including that between analysts, or between laboratory sessions for a single analyst. Since reproducibility includes additional sources of variability, the reproducibility of an analysis can be no better than its repeatability. 

A fuller description of the microchannel plate is presented in Chapter 30. Briefly, ions traveling down the flight tube of a TOF instrument are separated in time. As each m/z collection of ions arrives at the collector, it may be spread over a small area of space (Figure 27.3). Therefore, so as not to lose ions, rather than have a single-point ion collector, the collector is composed of an array of miniature electron multipliers (microchannels), which are all connected to one electrified plate, so, no matter where an ion of any one m/z value hits the front of the array, its arrival is recorded. The microchannel plate collector could be crudely compared to a satellite TV dish receiver in that radio waves of the same frequency but spread over an area are all collected and recorded at the same time of course, the multichannel plate records the arrival of ions not radio waves. 

Banked Memory. Another characteristic of many vector supercomputers is banked memory. The main memory is usually divided into a small number of electronically separate banks. A given memory bank can absorb or supply operands at a much slower rate than the rate at which the central processing unit (CPU) can produce or use data. If the data can be spread across multiple memory banks, the effective memory bandwidth, or rate at which memory can absorb or supply data, is increased. For example, if a single memory bank can supply one operand every 16 clock cycles, then 16 memory banks would enable the entire memory subsystem to deflver one operand per clock cycle, assuming that the data come sequentially from different memory banks. 

The complete characterization of a particulate material requires development of a functional relationship between crystal size and population or mass. The functional relationship may assume an analytical form (7), but more frequentiy it is necessary to work with data that do not fit such expressions. As such detail may be cumbersome or unavailable for a crystalline product, the material may be more simply (and less completely) described in terms of a single crystal size and a spread of the distribution about that specified dimension. 

Semiconductor materials are rather unique and exceptional substances (see Semiconductors). The entire semiconductor crystal is one giant covalent molecule. In benzene molecules, the electron wave functions that describe probabiUty density ate spread over the six ting-carbon atoms in a large dye molecule, an electron might be delocalized over a series of rings, but in semiconductors, the electron wave-functions are delocalized, in principle, over an entire macroscopic crystal. Because of the size of these wave functions, no single atom can have much effect on the electron energies, ie, the electronic excitations in semiconductors are delocalized. 

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