a filter medium primarily intended to hold soluble and insoluble contaminants on its surface by molecular adhesion.

A captive balloon used to maintain meteorological equipment aloft at approximately a constant height. The kytoon is streamlined and combines the aerodynamic properties of a balloon and a kite.

Motor Whaler.

Valencia Terminal Europe. Car carrier terminal in Spain.

Department of Trade and Industry (UK)

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai. Japanese Classification Society

The device in an air conditioner that distributes the filtered air from the return duct over the cooling coil/heat exchanger. This circulated air is cooled/heated and then sent through the supply duct, past dampers, and through supply diffusers to the liv ...

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A type of radiant heating system where the radiator is located along an exterior wall where the wall meets the floor.

Inter-governmental organisation

Medium earth orbit (satellite configuration)

An instrument for rapidly obtaining samples of airborne dust; a type of dust counter. Particles pass through a cylindrical chamber, are drawn at high velocity through a narrow slit, and then impinge upon a microscope cover glass located a short distance f ...

A special form of the aspiration psychrometer. developed by Assmann, in which the thermometric elements are well shielded from radiation. Psychrometric measurements may be taken with the instrument in the presence of direct solar radiation.

Cooking liquor from the kraft pulping process produced by recausticizing green liquor with lime.

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The difference between amounts of precipitation and runoff for a given storm. It is that portion of the precipitation that remains in the basin as soil moisture, surface storage, ground water, etc.

Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (Container)

(ADI)A daily weighted volume indicator that moves with price.

Bolts that secure the planks to the timbers.

Refers to marine matters such as an Admiralty Court.