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Fab: (semiconductor processing) A production facility, usually for one specific product.
Face mask: (contamination control) Face covering to prevent contamination from fluids from the mouth or nose, or particulates from the face or facial hair.
Face mask: (safety) Face covering to prevent chemicals from coming into contact with the face.
Fahrenheit temperature scale: A temperature scale based on the freezing point of water being 32 F and the boiling point of water being 212 F under standard pressure conditions.

See also Temperature scale, Centigrade ( C).
Fail-safe design: (vacuum technology) A design such that the system will assume a safe and non-contaminating configuration if there is a mechanical, electrical, or coolant failure.

See also What-if game.
Failure analysis: (adhesion) The analysis of the failed interface and other contributing factors to try to determine the cause of the failure.
Faraday's Law of Electrolysis: Faraday's Law of Electrolysis states that the amount of material dissolved or deposited in an electrolysis cell is proportional to the total charge passed through the cell.
Fatigue: Reduction of some property of a material after some period of stress.
Fatigue, chemical: Fatigue after exposure to a chemical environment. Example: Reduction in strength due to stress corrosion.
Fatigue, mechanical: Fatigue under mechanical motion, deformation, etc. Example: Workhardening (reducing the ductility of a metal).
Fatigue, static: Fatigue due a continuously applied stress with no motion. Example: Static fatigue failure in glass.
Feedback: (process) The control of the output of a process by the return of information about the output to the...

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