Provisional

Crude oils.

A fluid used to absorb and transfer heat energy.

An object bears so and so, when it is in such a direction from the person looking. To bear down upon a vessel, is to approach her from the windward.To bear up, is to put the helm up and keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to leeward.To bear aw ...

The measure of a company's solvency, looking at the relationship between its assets and its.

Same as rain-intensity gauge.

Marine Safety Office

The change in the power available in the wind due to changes in the windspeed or velocity profile; the windpower profile is proportional to the cube of the wind speed profile.

Any one of six gases, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, all of whose shells of planetary electrons contain stable numbers of electrons such that the atoms are chemically inactive.

Assessment model for Coastal and Marine Environments.

Method of settling disputes which is usually binding on parties. A clause usually in a charter party.

A device that transfers heat by the continuous evaporation and condensation of an internal fluid.

Fuels that cannot be easily made or "renewed," such as oil, natural gas, and coal.

The difference between the total cooling effect and the dehumidifying effect.

A sudden brief increase in the speed of the wind, followed by a lull or slackening. Compare to peak gust.

Heatless reactivated dryer. By means of expanding cold dry air to near atmospheric pressure inside the regeneration tower, the dryer air picks up moisture from the saturated desiccant bed and is then purged to atmosphere.

A guy who gets Head (toilet) cleaning detail.

The velocity of the gas in the passages between the filter units in the filter house of a gas filter.

The cost of producing one additional unit of a product.

A metallurgical term describing the formation of graphite in iron or steel, usually from decomposition of iron carbide at elevated temperatures. Not recommended as a term to describe graphitic corrosion.