(1) An isothermal reversible reaction in which a solid solution is converted into two or more intimately mixed solids on cooling, the number of solids formed being the same as the number of components in the system. (2) An alloy having the composition ind ...

Misrepresenting freight or weight on shipping documents.

To deliberately put a sailor ashore and leave him there while the ship sails away.

The difference between the solar radiation directed downward and upward; net flux of solar radiation.

Liquid Level

Restricted Service Coasting Service.

A compressed air coupling commonly used on European rail and road vehicles to connect one vehicle to the next.

A measure of the percent of moisture actually in the air compared with what would be in it if it were fully saturated at that temperature. When the air is fully saturated, its relative humidity is 100 percent.

SMES technology uses the superconducting characteristics of low-temperature materials to produce intense magnetic fields to store energy. SMES has been proposed as a storage option to support large-scale use of photovoltaics and wind as a means to smooth ...

A sound level meter designed or adapted to measure the level of the mean squared time averaged A-weighted sound pressure.

A bun-shaped cover placed over a radar scanner to prevent risk of fouling and to protect it from the weather.

A portion of the discharge gas is redirected through a heat exchanger and then expanded back to suction pressure, where it is mixed with normal suction gas stream and commonly used to compensate for process flow demands.

An electrical device for converting alternating current to direct current. The chamber in a cooling device where water is separated from the working fluid (for example ammonia).

A heat exchanger in which heat is recovered from the products of combustion.

Surrounded by land.

The fine liquid or solid particles contained in combustion gases. The quantity and size of particulates emitted by cars, power and industrial plants, wood stoves, etc are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The process of changing from one physical state (solid, liquid, or gas) to another, with a necessary or coincidental input or release of energy.

Materials left over from making nuclear energy. Radioactive waste can living organisms if it is not stored safely.

A type of solar heating system that circulate warm water from storage through the collectors and exposed piping whenever freezing conditions occur; obviously a not very efficient system when operating in this mode.

See: 'tax.