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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 ...
A unit of acceleration, used in gravity measurements: 1 Gal = 1 cm/s<sub>2</sub>. The Earth's normal gravity is 980 Gal. The term is not an abbrev.; it was invented to honor the memory of Galileo.
Industry:Mining
A unit of angular measure equal to the 60th part of a degree and containing 60 s of arc.
Industry:Mining
A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one-thousandth of a bar or 1,000 dyn/cm<sub>2</sub>; abbrev., mb.
Industry:Mining
A unit of ionizing radiation, equal to the amount that produces the same damage to humans as 1 R of high-voltage X-rays. Abbrev. rem.
Industry:Mining
A unit of measure representing the volume of water 1 ft (0.3 m) deep over an area of 1 mile<sub>2</sub>(2.6 km<sub>2</sub>).
Industry:Mining
A unit of measurement of electrical work that equals 1 W expended for 1 h. Abbrev., whr and wh.
Industry:Mining
A unit of measurement of electrical work that equals the rate of 1 W expended for 1 s. Abbrev., wsec.
Industry:Mining
A unit of measurement of radioactivity, defined as the amount of a radionuclide in which the decay rate is 37 billion disintegrations per second, which is approx. equal to the decay rate of 1 g of pure radium.
Industry:Mining
