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half thickness [′haf ¦thik·nəs]

(physics)

The thickness of a sheet of material which reduces the intensity of a beam of radiation passing through it to one-half its initial value. Also known as half-value layer; half-value thickness.

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No references found			x](z)dz] (3) where z is the remaining distance along half of the thickness of the specimen and is measured from zero at the core, and b is the specimen half thickness. Structure and property of injection-molded polypropylene along the ... by Yu, Xiaofeng; Wu, Hong; Li, Jiang; Guo, Shaoyun; Qiu, Jianhui / Polymer Engineering and Science Ex]) is the half thickness (or the radius) of jet flow. Modeling contraction flows and swell of polymer melts extruded from ... by Jeong, Jae-Hyeuk; Leonov, Arkady I. / Polymer Engineering and Science The half thickness in the delivery system and the cavity was discretized into equally-spaced 65 nodes. Theoretical and experimental studies of anisotropic shrinkage in ... by Kwon, Keehae; Isayev, A.I.; Kim, K.H.; van Sweden, C. / Polymer Engineering and Science			half cycle half door half dovetail half figure half hatchet half header half house half landing Half Line Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival Half Moon Bay State Beach Half Moon Pond State Park half nut Half Plane half principal half round half S-trap half section half set half slating Half Space half step half story half tap half term half thickness half tide half timber half time half tone half truss half volley half-adder half-adjust half-and-half half-and-half solder half-angle formulas half-arc angle half-bastion half-blind dovetail half-breadth plan Half-Breed half-brick wall half-bridge half-caste half-cell half-cell potential half-convergency half-course half-crown half-cut notch			Half Sized Diazo Non-Reproducible Drawing half slating Half Slotted Container half snipe half sole Half Sovereign Half Sovereigns Half space Half staff half step half step half step half steps half steps Half Stock Half Stocks half story Half Subtractor Half suit Half suit Half sword half tap half term half term half the battle Half The Fight half the time Half the truth is often a whole lie Half the world knows not how the other half lives half thickness Half tide Half tide half timber Half timbered Half time Half time Half tint half title Half tone Half tone Half tone Half Toning Half Toning Half Toning half track half track Half Truck Load half truss Half truth Half Two half under Half value layer Half value layer half vision half vision half vision half vision half vision half volley half volley

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