Video compression and nuclear reactor: what they have in common

1. Step 1. Video compression — is used in — Digital television. MPEG compression.
2. Step 2. Digital television — evolved from — Television. Digital broadcasting.
3. Step 3. Television — uses — Iconoscope. The camera tube.
4. Step 4. Iconoscope — is made of — Silver. The target is a mosaic of silver grains with caesium.
5. Step 5. Silver — is material for — Control rod. Control rods of pressurized water reactors are a silver–indium–cadmium alloy.
6. Step 6. Control rod — is part of — Nuclear reactor. The rods control the power.

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