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Solder joint fatigue
Solder joint fatigue is the mechanical degradation of solder joints that connect chips to circuit boards, caused by repeated thermal expansion cycles and often limiting a device's long-term reliability.
Solder paste
Solder paste, also called solder cream, is a blend of solder alloy particles and flux, applied to circuit board pads and melted in a reflow oven to form solder joints.
Soldering
Soldering is a group of joining processes that bond materials with a filler metal melting below 450 °C, the temperature above which the same process is called brazing.
Soldering iron
A soldering iron is a hand tool that heats a metal tip to melt tin-based solder below 450 °C, joining electronic components without melting the base metal.
Soldier
Soldier: an enlisted or noncommissioned member of armed forces, legally a combatant under IHL. Defined by seven role ideal types, Project A performance factors, MOS skill transfer, and UN peacekeeping service.
Soldier (1998 American film)
Soldier (1998) is a Paul W.S. Anderson sci-fi action film written by David Webb Peoples, starring Kurt Russell as obsolete super-soldier Todd 3465; a Blade Runner "sidequel" that grossed $14.6M against a $75M budget.
Soldier (1998 Indian film)
Soldier (सोल्जर) is a 1998 Hindi action drama by Abbas–Mustan starring Bobby Deol and Preity Zinta, about a son avenging his betrayed, killed army-officer father; not the Kurt Russell film.
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy (Benjamin) is The Boys character: three legacy comic superheroes created by Garth Ennis, and the TV version played by Jensen Ackles, Homelander's father, a Russian-captive Supe with a radioactive depowering blast, returning in Vought Rising (2027).
Soldier Field
Soldier Field, opened in Chicago in 1924 as Municipal Grant Park Stadium, is a lakefront stadium and memorial best known as home of the Chicago Bears.
Soldier of Fortune (magazine)
Soldier of Fortune (SOF), The Journal of Professional Adventurers, is a Boulder, Colorado war and firearms magazine founded in 1975 by Green Beret Robert K. Brown, known for mercenary recruitment, gun-for-hire lawsuits, and its 2022 sale to Susan Katz Keating.
Soldier of Fortune (video game)
Soldier of Fortune (2000) is a Raven Software first-person shooter published by Activision, built on the Quake 2 engine with the GHOUL hit-location system, consultant John Mullins, and notorious dismemberment gore; ports to Dreamcast, PS2, and Linux followed.
Soldier Soldier
Soldier Soldier: British ITV military drama (1991-1997), created by Lucy Gannon, 7 series, 82 episodes, following the fictional King's Fusiliers; launched Robson Green and Jerome Flynn's chart-topping Unchained Melody.
Soldier's Medal
Soldier's Medal: the U.S. Army's highest noncombat valor decoration, authorized by Congress on 2 July 1926 for heroism involving voluntary risk of life outside conflict with an enemy; equivalent to the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Airman's Medal, and Coast Guard Medal.
Soldiers Alive
Soldiers Alive (Ikite iru heitai) is a novella by the Japanese writer Ishikawa Tatsuzō, published in 1938 and based on his reporting from the Japanese march on Nanjing.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Pittsburgh's Beaux-Arts veterans memorial on Fifth Avenue in Oakland, opened 1910, designed by Henry Hornbostel after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, with a 2,500-seat auditorium and Hall of Valor.
Soldiers of Odin
Soldiers of Odin (SOO): anti-immigrant street-patrol vigilante movement founded October 2015 in Kemi, Finland, by Mika Ranta during the refugee crisis; spread via Facebook to roughly 20 countries by 2016 but declined in most; documented Nazi symbolism and SPLC hate-group listing.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland)
The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, dedicated July 4, 1894 on Cleveland's Public Square, honors about 9,000 county Civil War Union veterans; designed by Levi T. Scofield with bronze service groups and a Liberty statue.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)
Indiana State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Monument Circle, Indianapolis: 284 ft 6 in limestone Civil War memorial by Bruno Schmitz, built 1888–1901, dedicated 1902, crowned by the bronze Victory.
Solduno
Solduno, a village in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland, is the site of an extensive Iron Age (La Tène) and Roman necropolis with over 200 tombs, used from the mid-4th century BC to the mid-3rd century AD and excavated since 1935.
Solé
Solé (Tonya Michelle Johnston, born 1973, Kansas City) is an American rapper known for JT Money's 1999 hit "Who Dat" and her gold debut album Skin Deep on DreamWorks; distinct from the male rapper Sole (Tim Holland) of Anticon.
Sole (fish)
Sole is a common name for flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) with both eyes on one side of the head; the name spans Soleidae, Pleuronectidae, and Bothidae, covering Dover sole, English sole, and lemon sole.
Sole (foot)
The sole (planta pedis) is the bottom weight-bearing surface of the foot, with three arches, the plantar aponeurosis, 14 intrinsic muscles, and thick hairless skin; clinically central to diabetic foot ulcers and plantar pressure measurement.
Sole Companion
Sole Companion, or smr wʿty, was a high ancient Egyptian court rank meaning 'sole friend of the king', attested from 2800 BCE to 324 CE.
Sole DXB
Sole DXB, also known as Sole Dubai, is an annual street culture and music festival held each December at Dubai Design District, begun in 2011 as a sneaker summit.
Sole gas field
The Sole gas field is a producing natural gas field in the eastern Gippsland Basin off Victoria, Australia, supplying gas to the domestic east coast market.
Sole proprietorship
A sole proprietorship, also known as a sole trader, is an unincorporated business owned and run by one person, who bears unlimited personal liability for its debts.
Sole Survivor Policy
Sole Survivor Policy, or DoD Instruction 1315.15, Special Separation Policies for Survivorship: US rules protecting the last surviving child of a family that lost members to military service, originating with the 1942 Sullivan brothers deaths and codified in 1948, amended 1964 and 1971, expanded by the 2008 Hubbard Act.
Solea senegalensis
Solea senegalensis, the Senegalese sole, is a right-eyed flatfish native to the eastern Atlantic from France to Angola, established in the western Mediterranean, and a leading species for marine aquaculture in Southern Europe.
Solea solea
Solea solea (common sole, Dover sole; basionym Pleuronectes solea) is a commercially important demersal flatfish of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, burrowing in sandy bottoms at 10–60 m, spawning in coastal waters, with genetically distinct stocks and Data Deficient IUCN status.
Soleb
Soleb is a monumental sandstone temple in Upper Nubia, modern Sudan, built by Amenhotep III and dedicated to Amun and to the living king worshipped as a lunar god.