Bonds which offer high rates of interest but with correspondingly higher risk attached to the.

Down or downwards; as in "Lay alow!"; opposite of Aloft.

Oil pollution preparedness and response

A metastable aggregate of ferrite and cementite resulting from the transformation of austenite at temperatures below the pearlite range but above M

Peoples Republic of China.(flag)

United States Trade Representative.

Away from the direction of the wind. Opposite of windward.

The process whereby a position on the scale of an instrument is identified with the magnitude of the signal (or input force) actuating the instrument.

A deviation to move cargo on the return leg of a voyage for the purpose of minimizing ballast mileage and thereby reducing transportation costs.

An envelope consisting of support and resistance lines of the average true price range, calculated.

Location

A list of elements arranged according to their standard electrode potentials, with "noble" metals such as gold being positive and "active" metals such as zinc being negative.

A computer based trading system operating in futures markets incorporating the features of open.

A light line with a weight on the end used for heaving from ship to shore (or ship to ship) when coming alongside. A heavier cable or hawser is attached which can then be hauled over using the heaving line.

Metal bolts with an eye in the end.

The angular distance North or South of the equator, measured from the center of the earth. It thus corresponds to latitude on the earths surface.

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

A coating developed on a metal surface by a high temperature diffusion process (as carburization, calorizing, or chromizing).

Material placed in a drilled hole to fill space around anodes, vent pipe, and buried components of a cathodic protection system.

A compound of iron and carbon, known chemically as iron carbide and having the approximate chemical formula Fe3C. It is characterized by an orthorhombic crystal structure. When it occurs as a phase in steel, the chemical composition will be altered by the ...