Word Finder - tracer

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A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.

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A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.

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• tracer ammunition
• tracer bullet

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The act or state of tracking or investigating something.

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A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.

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A person who traces something.

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A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.

The license plate had been removed but Dean had a tracer placed on the vehicle identification number, a procedure that would take a couple of days.

On one occasion a machine gun was also being used firing tracer bullets.

We now sketch a simple strategy for using the tracer which copes with several of the symptom s described above.

We impose an artificial change in the thermal forcing and inject a tracer into the NW Atlantic.

This allows the labeled tracer to be prepared in advance and injected into a patient at any time over the subsequent six hours.

Bone scans use a tiny amount of radioactive tracer to show up ' hot spots ' in the bones.

There is the further problem that radiation emitted is not a good tracer of mass, which is what we are most interested in.

The first was marked with the inert tracer SF 6.

The ray tracer will be launched several times passing each time a number that selects the image in the sequence to be produced.

Is caffeine suitable for use as a chemical tracer?

Predosing with either lactose ureide or glucose ureide increased the rate of appearance of tracer, but did not alter transit times.

Ventilation in enclosed or mechanically ventilated areas can also be assessed using tracer gas techniques.

Using a vein in your arm, you will receive an injection of the radioactive tracer.

Opinion please one more a greater image for the samples of the color of the options of the tracer of lines.

Experimental data from the tracer experiments can be found here.

This forces the tracer gas through any small leaks.

Suddenly I saw red tracer fire coming from our rear.

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Tracer Services, it has been "illegal to sell, transfer, or possess confidential phone records" since President Bush signed off on the H.R. 4709 The Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 on January 12, 2007.

In this diagnostic procedure, a radioactive tracer is injected into the bloodstream and images are taken of specific areas or the entire skeleton by CT or MRI.