Static Apnea — is AIDA International discipline in which the freediver holds his or her breath for as long as possible with his or her respiratory tracts immersed, his or her body either in the water or at the surface. Static apnea is the only discipline… … Wikipedia
Static secondary ion mass spectrometry — Static secondary ion mass spectrometry, or static SIMS is a technique for chemical analysis including elemental composition and chemical structure of the uppermost atomic or molecular layer of a solid which may be a metal, semiconductor or… … Wikipedia
Static grass — is used in model railroading and miniature wargaming to create realistic looking grass textures. It consists of small threadlike particles charged with static electricity, making it stand up when glued to a surface. Several companies produce… … Wikipedia
Surface-mount technology — (SMT) is a method for constructing electronic circuits in which the components (SMC, or Surface Mounted Components) are mounted directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Electronic devices so made are called surface mount… … Wikipedia
Surface weather observation — Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. [Office of the Federal Coordinator of Meteorology. [http://www.ofcm.gov/fmh 1/pdf/B CH2.pdf… … Wikipedia
Surface analysis tools — include AES (Auger Electron Spectroscopy); ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis), also known as XPS (X ray photoelectron spectroscopy); and SSIM (Static secondary ion mass spectrometry). Surface analysis tools are most often used to… … Wikipedia
static electricity — static elec tricity n [U] electricity that is not flowing in a current, but collects on the surface of an object and gives you a small ↑electric shock … Dictionary of contemporary English
surface analysis — ▪ chemistry Introduction in analytical chemistry (chemistry), the study of that part of a solid that is in contact with a gas or a vacuum. When two phases of matter are in contact, they form an interface. The term surface is usually… … Universalium
Surface gravity — The surface gravity, g , of an astronomical or other object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface. The surface gravity may be thought of as the acceleration due to gravity experienced by a hypothetical test particle which… … Wikipedia
Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid — In metric theories of gravitation, particularly general relativity, a static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solution (a term which is often abbreviated as ssspf) is a spacetime equipped with suitable tensor fields which models a static round … Wikipedia
Static electricity — For the science of static charges see Electrostatics Static electricity refers to the accumulation of excess electric charge in a region with poor electrical conductivity (an insulator), such that the charge accumulation persists. The effects of… … Wikipedia