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Alphabetical index

Three Mile Island nuclear accident The accident that occurred on 28 March 1979 in the Three ...	Thrust Thrust is the force delivered by a rocket engine resulting ...
Tidal force The tidal force is the gravitational acceleration which ...	Time Time is a continuous physical quantity making it possible to ...
Top quark The top quark is a particle of matter. It is one of the six ...	Torsion Torsion is a method to mechanically stress a deformable ...
Toughness An expression of the rupture behaviour of a material in the ...	Translation Translation is the movement of a solid such that lines drawn ...
Translucent Translucent means allowing light to pass.	Transparent A transparent body is one through which objects can be seen.
Tritium breeding blanket In a tokamak, the breeding blanket is located immediately ...	Tungsten Tungsten is an element (symbol W), of atomic number 74, ...
Tunnel effect The tunnel effect is a very frequent phenomenon in quantum ...	Turbulence Mechanics Turbulence is fluid flow in which a random ...
TWyr 1 Terawatt-year = 1000 GW-years = 1 million kW-years. 1 TWyr ...	U Symbol commonly used to denote an electrical voltage.
Ultraviolet Ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation with ...	Up quark The up quark is a particle of matter. It is one of the six ...
Vacuum 1/ A vacuum is a medium in which the pressure is much lower ...	Valence electron A valence electron is one that is generally in the outer ...