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A method of preventing the ends of a line from unlaying or fraying by turns of small stuff, stout twine or seizing wire with the ends tucked.

A hypothetical "body" whose surface absorbs no electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. An idealization exactly opposite to that of the black body. In nature, no true white bodies are known. Moist white pigments exhibiting high reflectivity for visibl ...

The white froth on the crests of waves.

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

Same as fogbow.

Zinc oxide: the powdery product of corrosion of zinc or zinc-coated surfaces.

World Health Organisation

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Wind with a speed between 48 and 55 knots (55 and 63 mph), Beaufort scale number 10.

A mechanical/electrical device used to pull air out of an interior space; usually located in the highest location of a building, in the ceiling, and venting to the attic or directly to the outside.

The wheeling of electric power in amounts and at prices that generally have been negotiated in longterm contracts between the generator and a distributor or very large consumer of power.

Where

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The vertical absorption of a liquid into a porous material by capillary forces.

At a considerable distance.

One of the radiation laws which states that the wavelength of maximum radiation intensity for a black body is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature of the radiating black body.

Whether In Free Pratique Or Not.

A wooden enclosure about sixteen feet square and eight feet high with a precipitation gauge at its center. The function of the fence is to minimize eddies around the gauge and thus insure a catch that is representative of the actual rainfall or snowfall.