simulant

Example Sentences

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Once both are at operating temperature, the facility next will heat a nonradioactive simulant of tank waste with glass former as part of preparations to treat radioactive waste.

From Seattle Times

Compared with the landscapes of Devon Island, fistfuls of regolith simulant or even a test-tube moon, Dr. Hörst’s lab planets lack physicality.

From New York Times

Today, private companies use NASA’s data and recipes for private simulant supplies.

From New York Times

The pills are a simulant that are supposed to be used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

From Seattle Times

Wamelink then discovered that you could buy Nasa-endorsed “regolith simulant”, essentially soil from Earth that has many of the properties of that found in space: the “moon” soil came from a desert in Arizona, and the Mars simulant from the side of a volcano on Hawaii, which is then cleaned and rolled to make it more dusty.

From The Guardian