- Industry: Mining
- Number of terms: 33118
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron by the magnetic needle.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining salinity of water (a salinometer) by measuring electrical conductivity of the water sample with a wheatstone bridge.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining temperature usually by means of a scale graduated directly in temperature units and consisting typically of (1) a device having a bimetallic element, the expansion or contraction of which indicates a change in temperature, or (2) a glass bulb attached to a fine tube of glass with a numbered scale etched on it or fastened to it and containing a liquid (as mercury or cooled alcohol) that is sealed in and rises and falls with changes of temperature and that indicates the temperature by the number at the top of the column of liquid.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining the amount of carbon dioxide in a mixture of gases.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining the degree of hardness of a mineral by ascertaining the pressure on a moving diamond point necessary to effect a scratch.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining the depth of sea water by its pressure.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining the dewpoint; a type of hygrometer.
Industry:Mining
An instrument for determining the inclination of a drill pipe from the vertical and the depth of measurement.
Industry:Mining
