The windward side (from where the wind is blowing).

Time and date for payment of a draft.

Comity Maritime International (maritiem law association)

International Maritime Bureau

Harmonized Tariff Schedule

A thermometer which uses a transducing element whose element proper-ties are a function of its thermal state. Common meteorological examples of such thermometers are the resistance thermometer and the thermoelectric thermometer.

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An abbreviation of forecastle.

The severe loss of ductility of a metal resulting from corrosive attack, usually inter,granular and often not visually apparent.

Distance at sea is measured in nautical miles, which are about 6067.12 feet, 1.15 statute miles or exactly 1852 meters. Nautical miles have the unique property that a minute of latitude is equal to one nautical mile - Measurement of speed is done in knots ...

Is used in psychrometry and is the temperature recorded by a thermometer whose bulb has been covered with a wetted wick and whirled on a sling psychrometer. Taken with the dry bulb, it permits determination of relative humidity of the atmosphere.

Incapable of being mixed without separation phases. Water and petroleum oil are immiscible under most conditions, although they can be made miscible with the addition of an emulsifier.

The practice of buying shares in a potential target at the beginning of a trading day in the hope.

System consisting of one or more metals and all parts of the environment that influence corrosion.

Ropes hung and used for assistance in ascending and descending.

The flow of heat from one area to another by conduction, convection, and/or radiation. Heat flows naturally from a warmer to a cooler material or space.

An assembly, consisting of a vessel, electrodes, and an electrolyte, in which electrolysis can be carried out.

Heating a ferrous alloy to a suitable temperature above the transformation range and then cooling in air to a temperature substantially below the transformation range.

A house built into the ground or slope of a hill, or which has most or all exterior surfaces covered with earth.