MGF

MGF may stand for:

  • MG F, a 1995 mid-engined, rear wheel drive roadster manufactured by the Rover Group
  • Machine Gun Fellatio, an Australian alternative band
  • Magnesium fluoride (chemical formula MgF2)
  • Malagasy franc, the former currency of Madagascar in ISO 4217 code
  • Mechano growth factor, a peptide hormone produced in muscles in response to training, considered an isoform of IGF-1
  • Moment generating function, in probability and statistics
  • .mgf, (for Mascot generic format) a data file format used by Mascot mass spectrometry software
  • Mask generation function, a function generating an arbitrary number of bits for a given input (for example MGF1 from PKCS1)
  • Magnesium fluoride

    Magnesium fluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula MgF2. The compound is a white crystalline salt and is transparent over a wide range of wavelengths, with commercial uses in optics that are also used in space telescopes. It occurs naturally as the rare mineral sellaite.

    Production and structure

    Magnesium fluoride is prepared from magnesium oxide with sources of hydrogen fluoride such as ammonium bifluoride:

    Related metathesis reactions are also feasible.

    The compound crystallizes as tetragonal birefringent crystals. The structure of the compound is similar to that in rutile, featuring octahedral Mg2+ centers and 3-coordinate fluoride centres.

    Uses

    Optics

    Magnesium fluoride is transparent over an extremely wide range of wavelengths. Windows, lenses, and prisms made of this material can be used over the entire range of wavelengths from 0.120 μm (vacuum ultraviolet) to 8.0 μm (infrared). High quality synthetic VUV grade MgF2 is quite expensive, in the region of $3/kg (2007) but the real cost of optics in this material is due to relatively low volume manufacture. However, with lithium fluoride it is one of the two materials that will transmit in the vacuum ultraviolet range at 121 nm (Lyman alpha) and this is where it finds its application. Lower grade MgF2 is sometimes used in the infrared but here it is inferior to calcium fluoride. MgF2 is tough and works and polishes well, but it is slightly birefringent and should be cut with the optic axis perpendicular to the plane of the window or lens.

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    Machine Gun Fellatio

    ALBUMS

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Make A Wave

    by: Demi Lovato

    joe : They say the beat of a butterflies wings,
    can set off a storm a world away
    Demi : What if they're right and the smallest of things,
    can power the strongest hurricane
    joe : What if it all begins inside
    Demi : We hold the key that turns the tide
    CHORUS
    Both : Just a pebble in the water
    Demi : ooh
    Demi : Can set the sea in motion
    Demi : ooh
    Both : A simple act of kindness
    Demi: ohh
    joe : Can stir the widest ocean
    Both : If we show a little love
    heaven knows what we could change
    oh yeah
    so throw a pebble in the water
    Joe: Oh Yeah
    Both : Mave a wave
    Demi : Make a wave
    joe : Make a wave, make a wave
    VERSE 2
    Demi : The single choice to take a stand
    joe : And reach out your hand to someone in need
    (help somebody)
    demi : Don't fool yourself and say you can't
    joe : You never know what can grow
    from just one seed
    demi : yeahhh
    so come with me and seize the day
    this world may never be the same
    CHORUS
    Both : Just a pebble in the water
    Demi : Just a pebble in the water
    Both : Can set the sea in motion
    joe : Can set the sea in motion
    Both : A simple act of kindness
    demi: ohhh
    both : Can stir the widest ocean
    joe : Can stir the widest ocean
    Both : If we show a little love
    joe : If we show a little love
    Both : Heaven knows what we could change
    Demi : Heaven knows what we could change
    Both: so throw a pebble in the water
    joe : throw a pebble in the water
    Both : Make a wave
    Demi : Make a wave
    joe : Make a wave
    BRIDGE
    Demi: Yea yea yea yea yeahhh
    joe : Make a wave, make a wave
    Demi: Make a wave Yeah
    joe : Show a little love make a wave, seize the day yeahh
    Demi: make a wave, heaven knows what we could change
    joe : ohh
    Demi: So let's show a little love, you never know what we can change
    joe : So throw a pebble in the water
    demi: mmmmmmmm
    both : Make a wave, make a wave
    joe: oohh wooah




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