Meaning of photoapparatus | Babel Free

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Synonym of camera (“device for making still pictures”).

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“The glass industry uses oxides of rare-earth metals to finish glass; they are used to produce special types of colorless and stained glass (for example, for optical photoapparatus). Color television is a prospective new field for the use of europium and yttrium compounds.”

“Our imports from the Soviet Union in 1970 will include inter alia 9.5 million tons of crude oil, nearly 1,500 million cu.m. of gas, iron ore /10.7 mil.tons/, hard coal /2.7 mil.tons/, grain /1.3 mil.tons/, artificial fertilizers and raw materials for their production /over 500 000 tons/, non-ferrous and rare metals incl.semi-finished products /nearly 200 000 tons/, cotton /60,000 tons/, sunflower seeds and vegetable oils /55,000 tons/, meat, butter, animal fats /36 000 tons/, chromium and manganese ore /nearly 250,000 tons/, ferro-alloys /over 100 000 tons/, but also 50,000 TV-sets, 65,000 transistorized radio-receivers, at least 11,000 cars, 2 mil. metres of cotton fabrics, 740,000 watches, photoapparatuses, agricultural equipment, grain harvesters, tractors, civil aviation equipment, analytical computers, nearly 1,000 pieces of various metal-working and machine tools, as well as scores of building and road-building machines.”

“The spark chambers were photographed by pairs of photoapparatuses.”

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