The maximum heat output (in Btu per hour) released by a burner with a stable flame and satisfactory combustion.

A structural, load-carrying building member with an open web system that supports floors and roofs utilizing wood or specific steels and is designed as a simple span member.

An instrument for photographing the corona and prominences of the sun at times other than at solar eclipse.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard code used to represent data using 8 bits (7 data bits and I parity bit) per character.

personal computer

The potential of a metal surface necessary to decompose the electrolyte of a cell or a component/substance thereof.

A machine with a common prime mover which will provide independently the functions of either a windlass or a mooring winch (automatic or non-automatic).

A technique commonly used to prepare metallographic specimens, in which a high polish is produced by making the specimen the anode in an electrolytic cell, where preferential dissolution at high points smooths the surface.

Energy systems supply individual, or small-groups, of energy loads.

Closest Point of Approach

Lower explosive mixture

(1) A metal corroding under the control of a surface reaction product. (2) The state of the metal surface characterized by low corrosion rates in a potential region that is strongly oxidizing for the metal. (3) The state of a metal when its behavior is mu ...

Captain Of The Port

Heating a metal or alloy to such a high temperature that its properties are impaired. When the original properties cannot be restored by further heat treating, by mechanical working, or by a combination of working and heat treating, the overheating is kno ...

The process by which events in the real world are translated into machine-readable signals.

A cylindrical navigation buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light.

The purpose for which useful energy or work is consumed.

A written agreement (also called a deed of trust) between a bond issuer and a purchaser which.

Embrittlement of alloy steels caused by holding within or cooling slowly through a temperature range just below the transformation range. Embrittlement is the result of the segregation at grain boundaries of impurities such as arsenic, antimony, phosphoru ...

An instrument, located at the surface observing station, which is used to record the data presented by a radiosonde aloft.