U. S. Testing

Addition of suitable builders, such as sodium silicates or sodium tripolyphosphate, could increase the detergency of soap-LSDA blend even further. A systematic investigation of three-component systems, soap-LSDA builder, showed that a detergency maximum could be attained which corresponded to a certain fixed ratio of components. Maximum detergency corresponded to an approximate composition of 75% soap, 10% MES, and 15% metasilicate. The tests were carried out at 50°C and at 300 ppm water hardness which is well above that of U.S. municipal water supplies. The principle of detergency potentiation of soap by an LSDA and builder was always evident, even when using other artificially soiled cloths, such as those supplied by U.S. Testing Co. or Testfabrics Inc. 

Plutonium from the Hanford Site was shipped to Los Alamos every 5 days, and enriched uranium was shipped to Los Alamos from Oak Ridge. At 5 30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 1945, the U.S. tested the first plutonium bomb, named Trinity, at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The bomb exploded with a force of approximately 18.6 kilotons. After this test there was no longer any question that the plutonium bomb would work. 

B98004 Evaluation of Dredged Material Proposed for Discharge in Waters of the U.S., Testing Manual (The Inland Testing Manual)... 

Surveys (10) show that oil shale deposits in the U.S. testing 25 gal or more per ton contain about 600 billion bbl of oil. These deposits range in depths from surface outcrops to 2000 ft. If a lower limit of richness is set at 10 gal/ton, the available volume of oil would be increased 25-fold to about 2 trillion bbl. The development of a technique for efficient shale oil recovery would significantly influence the U.S. s total oil supply. 

End Points Measured Test Duration Cost Capital Operation Data > Basec U.S. Testing Capacity, chemicals/yr ... 

Currently in Europe each country has its own fire standard for mass transit vehicles. These tests do not correlate well with each other or with the U.S. test requirements. This makes it difficult for suppliers, since they may have to use different systems to meet the requirement for each country. The EU is in the process of developing a unified standard EN 45545 that will be accepted all over... 

The FCHV in Fig. 4-3 stores hydrogen in four 35 megapascal (MPa), equal to 5000 pounds per square inch (psi), high-pressure tanks. The system combines hydrogen from the tanks with oxygen from the air to generate 90 kW of electric power. The maximum speed of the Toyota FCHV is 155 kilometers per bour, and the range is 300 kilometers (km) measured by the Japanese 10-15 test mode, or somewhat less if tested on standard U.S. test cycles. 

Screening machines are evaluated on their ability to maximize both prodnct qnality and screening efficiency. One or more of the fractions, or flows, prodnced is considered to be prodnct. This prodnct has imposed on it a quality specihcation defining the acceptable particle size distribution. Often, this specihcation consists simply of particle size limits. For example, in a scalping application, the prodnct quality specihcation may be stated as 0% + 10 U.S. allowable, i.e., a sample of material that passes through the screen should contain no material coarser than a No. 10 U.S. test sieve. Similar specihcations can also be applied to dehne acceptable resnlts of a hnes removal operation. For example, a hnes specihcation of 3% maximnm allowable -60 U.S. means that the analysis of a sample taken from the material that passed over the screen would contain no more than 3% by weight passing the No. 60 U.S. test sieve. 

A pair of catalysts, one dynamometer aged to 80K km on 3 mg/1 and the other on 10 mg/1 Pb was tested in turn on a 1.6L Ford Escort with a known emission history. 83 U.S. tests were conducted. The results obtained are shown in Fig 7. 

Applying U.S. standards or safety methodology to product assessment increases the risks of nonconformity because there are fundamental technical and interpretation differences between the U.S. and EU views (ANSI/UL vs. EN/IEC). In the area of safety philosophy, the U.S. test agencies, known as Nationally Recognized Test Laboratory s (NRTL), stress fire and tests, whereas, the European bodies focus on shock and construction. Both camps generally consider all safety... 

The AEC s attempts to calm public fears produced, at best, mixed results. The agency intended its February report to be reassuring, but the information it presented was unavoidably disquieting. The new bombs and the threat of fallout, wrote Michael Straight in the New Republic, heralded "a foreboding future." A series of U.S. tests of small atomic bombs in Nevada in early 1955 and Soviet hydrogen blasts later in the year raised levels of radioactivity over large areas and rekindled public... 

Available from U.S. Testing Co., No. SIS-7712. For safety purposes, beakers should be examined for sharp edges and fire polished, if neeessary. Also available from Owens Glass Apparatus, Inc., 128 River Road, Channelview, TX 77S30,... 

Nicols Fox, Spoiled 147 (1997) Carole Sugarman, On the Trail of Salmonella, WP, October 17, 1999, at Ei Amanda Spake, A Crackdown on Bad Eggs, U.S. News World Report, July 12, 1999, at 50 Daniel P. Puzo, Food Bites Back Issues of iggo, EAT, January 3,1991, at H2 Daniel P. Puzo, 3 0/ 5 Chickens in U.S. Test Found to Have Salmonella, EAT, May 4, 1990, at Ai. 

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