Dangerously steep and breaking seas due to opposing currents and wind in a shallow area.

The carbon left after evaporating an oil under controlled conditions.

An assembly, consisting of a vessel, electrodes, and an electrolyte, in which electrolysis can be carried out.

System consisting of one or more metals and all parts of the environment that influence corrosion.

A winch, frequently unpowered, having rope storage capacity and used for topping and lowering a derrick boom while the boom is unloaded and for supporting it while it is supporting a load.

The face value of currency, coins, and stocks and.

The ratio and percent of the actual delivered capacity (measured at inlet temperature, pressure and gas composition) to the piston displacement.

To wrap a small line around another.

Used for sending messages to outside companies. Messages are transmitted via Western Union, ITT and RCA. Being replaced by fax and internet.

An absolute temperature scale with the degree of the Fahrenheit scale and the zero point of the Kelvin scale. The freezing point of water equals 491.69

An instrument used for measuring geometric angles. See radio direction-finder.

Materials with various qualities that are applied to glass windows before installation. These coatings reduce radiant heat transfer through the window and also reflects outside heat and a portion of the incoming solar energy, thus reducing heat gain. The ...

Gossip, usually about other people or events. The term scuttlebutt evolved from the name of a keg containing water and alcohol that sailors used to gather about before meals.

Is the energy a substance possesses by virtue of its motion or velocity. Used primarily in calculations for dynamic and ejector type compressors

Heavy Fuel Oil

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

The ratio of the percentage change in the quantity of a good or service demanded to the percentage change in the price.

A salt, sodium sulfate decahydrate, that melts at 90 degrees Fahrenheit; a component of eutetic salts that can be used for storing heat.

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

A device that converts heat or sunlight directly to electricity, invented by Standford Ovshinsky, that has a unique glass composition that changes from an electrically non-conducting state to a semiconducting state.