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Are those constituents in the suction gas that cannot be condensed to a liquid with the cooling medium available.

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An apparatus for measuring force or power, especially the power developed by a motor.

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A triangular fore-and-aft sail carried on a stay. A sail that is set on a stay, and not on a yard or a mast. On a cutter this is the sail located between the jib and the main sail

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Port State Information Exchange.

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Short, discontinuous internal fissures in wrought metals attributed to stresses produced by localized transformation and decreased solubility of hydrogen during cooling after hot working. In a fracture surface. flakes appear as bright silvery areas; on an ...

An accumulation of deposits. This term includes accumulation and growth of marine organisms on a submerged metal surface and also includes the accumulation of deposits (usually inorganic) on heat exchanger tubing.

See intergranular cracking.

The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product.

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An instrument which automatically records the voltage applied to it, as a function of time.

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A pyranometer developed by M. Robitzsch. Its design utilizes three bimetallic strips which are exposed horizontally at the center of a hemispherical glass bowl. The outer strips are white reflectors and the center strip is a blackened absorber. The bimeta ...

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A pension scheme in which an employee's pension is based on number of years of service and final.

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Fire-Tube Boiler Survey

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The point at which the Sun , traveling in the Ecliptic , crosses the Equinoctial when going from South to North declination.

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Coasting Service in Western Samoa.

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A measure of distance approximately 3 nautical miles. One-twentieth of a degree of latitude.

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An order given to take hold of a rope and pull.

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Heat cannot, of itself, pass from a colder to a hotter body.

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Any boat built to certain standards or rules so that is like all others in the same class.

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PPA

Personal Property Accounting system.

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