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A blanket made of a plastic material covered with a reflective metal agent; designed to reduce heat loss from a persons body following trauma
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space blanket — noun A light plastic aluminium coated cover used to wrap climbers, runners, etc in order to prevent loss of body heat • • • Main Entry: ↑space … Useful english dictionary
Space blanket — A space blanket A space blanket (also known as a Mylar blanket, first aid blanket, emergency blanket, thermal blanket or weather blanket) is a blanket used in emergencies to reduce heat loss in a person s body caused by thermal radiation, water… … Wikipedia
space blanket — /ˈspeɪs blæŋkət/ (say spays blangkuht) noun a light plastic blanket coated with aluminium foil on one or both sides, designed to reflect body heat back toward the body. {from the fact that they were originally made for the US space program} …
space blanket — noun a light metal coated sheet designed to retain heat, originally developed for use during space travel … English new terms dictionary
Blanket (disambiguation) — A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding materialTypes of blanket* Afghan blanket, colored wool knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes * Blanket capote, blanket used as a coat, as by frontiersmen and mountaineers *… … Wikipedia
Blanket — For other uses, see Blanket (disambiguation). The Bed by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec depicts two people under a blanket A blanket is a type of bedding, generally speaking, a large piece of cloth, intended to keep the user warm, especially while… … Wikipedia
space — 1. noun /speɪs/ a) The intervening contents of a volume. If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters… … Wiktionary
Space solar power — Space based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the conversion of solar energy into power, usable either in space or on earth, from a location in space, usually geosynchronous orbit (GSO). Photovoltaics (PV) would generally be utilized for energy… … Wikipedia
Space weathering — is a blanket term used for a number of processes that act on any body exposed to the harsh space environment. Airless bodies (including the Moon, Mercury, the asteroids, comets, and some of the moons of other planets) incur many weathering… … Wikipedia
Space-based industry — is a blanket term sometimes used to cover a variety of future forms of human activity in outer space, including space mining, space manufacturing, space trade, construction performed in space such as the building of space stations, space burial,… … Wikipedia
