In particular the intermediate product protactinium-233 (Pa-233) is a neutron absorber which diminishes U-233 yield.
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This acts as a shock absorber for the rider, who is in the middle of the ball.
Bonds serve as a shock absorber for the volatility of the stock market.
Electricity generation becomes a net absorber of CO2 rather than a net emitter.
Long term debt, on the other hand, acts as a shock absorber.
This meant that equity, the balance-sheet shock-absorber, had to fall in value.
For the ribs -- there's cartilage that is a natural shock absorber so I don't know how truly affective that piece might be.
This alloy isn't new--it's been used as a neutron absorber in nuclear power plants--but hafnium's use as a chip insulator required a fabrication breakthrough.
Then the absorber is processed to release the CO2, allowing the device to go back to work and the CO2 to be disposed of.
Successful Kairos companies include the Levant Power Corporation, a shock absorber developer co-founded by Forbes 30 under 30 members Zack Anderson and Shakeel Avadhany.
Others are convinced that the Spanish public sector still has much fat, that unemployment statistics are inflated and that the shock-absorber of Spanish society, the family, remains strong.
This time around, it seems that the more flexible and much weaker rouble will be used as a main shock absorber if the world crisis deepens, and should provide a mechanism for a rapid balance-of-payments adjustment.
Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps.
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