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PNC

Possible New Construction.

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A region of electrical contact between two different materials.

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Are load carrying machine elements permitting some degree of motion in which the lubricant is air or some other gas.

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Deals on an exchange where investors are obliged to settle immediately rather than on.

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Term used in the days of sail to indicate the starboard of the two anchors carried at the bow of a ship. The anchor on the port side was known as the small bower (although they were the same size).

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The setting of the price of gold by dealers (especially in a twice-daily London meeting at the Bank.

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A measure of the degree to which the weather or climate of a region is favorable to the process of evaporation. Usually considered to be the rate of evaporation. under existing atmospheric conditions, from a surface of water which is chemically pure and h ...

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A type of power generating facility that pumps water to a storage reservoir during off-peak periods, and uses the stored water (by allowing it to fall through a hydro turbine) to generate power during peak periods. The pumping energy is typically supplied ...

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A slab floor that sits directly on top of the surrounding ground.

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Insurance covering the structure or contents of a house. This type of insurance now tends to.

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Ice crystal deposits formed by sublimation (conversion of water vapor directly to ice) when temperature and dew point are below freezing.

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In a system of moist air, the dimensionless ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of dry air. For many purposes, the mixing ratio may be approximated by the specific humidity.

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LR1

(Large Range 1) Vessels 50,000-79,999 DWT

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FOR

Free On Rail

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RPR

Repairs

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Is energy in transition and is defined in units of Force times Distance. Work cannot be done unless there is movement.

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bucket rain gauge-A rain gauge where the precipitation collected by the receiver empties into one side of a chamber which is partioned transversely at its center and is balanced bistably upon a horizontal axis. When a predetermined amount of water has bee ...

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The sum of the sensible and latent heat in a substance or fluid above a base point, usually 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Factor for a loading condition that displaced the crack faces in a direction normal to the crack plane (also known as the opening mode of deformation).

Brittle failure by cracking under the combined action of tensile stress and corrosion in the presence of water and hydrogen sulfide. See also environmental cracking.