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RE: Auger
Question/Clarification please!
Are we discussing auger as in:
Any of various hand tools, typically having a threaded shank and cross
handle, used for boring holes in wood or ice.
A drill bit.
A machine having a rotating helical shaft for boring into the earth.
A rotating helical shaft used to convey material, as in a snow blower.
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[Middle English, from an auger, alteration of a nauger, from Old English
nafogr, auger. See nobh- in Indo-European Roots.]
1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet.
It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A
pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean
pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the
chips are discharge.
2. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining
the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they
lie, and for obtaining water.
Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.
1: a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes [syn:
snake, plumber's snake] 2: hand tool for boring holes [syn: gimlet, screw
auger, wimble]
Or Auger as in Auger electron
An electron ejected from a lower energy orbital after a photoelectric
interaction of an X-ray photon with a K-shell electron by the characteristic
radiation photon; the Auger electron recoils with energy equal to the
characteristic radiation less the difference in shell binding energies.
David Hall
Emergency Management Operations Team
Site Management Division
Nevada Site Office
National Nuclear Security Administration
US Department of Energy
halld@nv.doe.gov
702.295.0157 voice
702.657.7605 fax
702.794.1835 pager
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Otton [mailto:jkotton@usgs.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:54 AM
To: Thompson, Donald L.; 'Stabin, Michael'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Auger
Mike, Don, Radsafers,
As a geologist who has used these devices for about 30 years, I have heard
both the "AW-grrr" and the "OW-grrr" pronunciations. Sometimes you have to
be an "augur" to predict what you are going to see what you use an auger at
a contaminated site.
Jim Otton
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Thompson, Donald L.
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:28 AM
To: 'Stabin, Michael'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Auger
Please don't tell me I've spent 40 years teaching students the wrong
pronunciation of Auger!
Donald L. Thompson, PhD
Center for Devices and
Radiological Health, FDA
-----Original Message-----
From: Stabin, Michael [mailto:michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:54 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Auger
Regarding the pronunciation of "Auger", I have always believed what I found
on this web site (http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?PhysicsWords):
"Don't say AW-gher like the drill, but rather "O. J." or even "OH zhay!"
with a French twinkle in your eyes."
I taught this recently at a short course, but was challenged by one of the
students that Auger was actually raised in a German speaking province in
France, and that the pronunciation might be more like "OW-gher". Not hugely
important, I know, but now I'm curious. Anyone have any way of verifying or
refuting this claim?
Mike
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Department of
Radiology and Radiological Sciences Vanderbilt University 1161 21st Avenue
South Nashville, TN 37232-2675 Phone (615) 343-0068
Fax (615) 322-3764
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e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
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