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  • adjective geology Describing deposits of minerals formed from warm water at shallow depth
  • adjective physics Describing neutrons of kinetic energy greater than that of thermal motion

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Examples

  • You're better off looking for the higher grade - "epithermal" - smaller vein, higher grade, near-surface deposits that will have an easier time of actually going the whole distance and getting into production.

    Gold Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • You're better off looking for the higher grade - "epithermal" - smaller vein, higher grade, near-surface deposits that will have an easier time of actually going the whole distance and getting into production.

    unknown title 2009

  • Three of the six are fast reactors, one can be built as a fast reactor, one is described as epithermal, and only two operate with slow neutrons like today's plants.

    Generation IV nuclear reactors 2009

  • Three of the six systems are fast reactors, one can be built as a fast reactor, and one is described as epithermal - these five are described below.

    Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009

  • Three of the six are fast reactors, one can be built as a fast reactor, one is described as epithermal, and only two operate with slow neutrons like today's plants.

    BlueNC - The people's think tank 2009

  • El Dorado and the vast majority of gold-bearing systems in El Salvador are of a deposit type that is the single cleanest type of primary metal deposit on the planet low-sulfidation epithermal.

    El Salvador Really Isn't All That Far From the U.S.A. 2011

  • While not strictly a fast neutron reactor, the uranium fuel is dissolved in the sodium fluoride salt coolant which circulates through graphite core channels to achieve some moderation and an epithermal neutron spectrum.

    Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009

  • In an MSR, the Uranium fuel is dissolved in the sodium fluoride salt coolant, which circulates through graphite core channels to achieve some moderation and an epithermal neutron spectrum.

    Generation IV nuclear reactors 2009

  • It is not a fast reactor, but with some moderation by the graphite is epithermal (intermediate neutron speed).

    Small nuclear power reactors 2009

  • Thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons interact with atomic nuclei creating secondary ionizing radiation and are called indirectly ionizing radiation.

    Electromagnetic radiation 2008

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