A device, or system of devices, that allows electrical current to flow through it and allows voltage to occur across positive and negative terminals.
A device used to interrupt or break an electrical circuit when an overload condition exists; usually installed in the positive circuit; used to protect electrical equipment.
A defensive regulation which some stock exchanges have to limit the damage of a sharp fall in.
As time increases from zero at the terminals of an inductor, the voltage comes to a particular value on the sine function curve ahead of the current. The voltage reaches its negative peak exactly 90 degrees before the current reaches its negative peak thu ...
An analyst's report which recommends that certain shares be bought, held or sold, based on his.
A type of furnace or reactor in which the emission of sulfur compounds is lowered by the addition of crushed limestone in the fluidized bed thus obviating the need for much of the expensive stack gas clean-up equipment. The particles are collected and rec ...
A mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface is larger in area than the upper surface. The basic construction of a cistern barometer is as follows: A glass tube one meter in length, sealed at one end is filled with mercury, and then inverted. Th ...
An office, represented in most towns in the UK, where the public can obtain free advice on an.
The rules which govern the management and timing of takeover bids involving companies listed on.
A composite metal containing, two or more layers that have been bonded together. The bonding may have been accomplished by co-rolling, co-extrusion, welding, diffusion bonding, casting, heavy chemical deposition, heavy electroplating, or explosive claddin ...