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Specialty compressed air treatment meeting OSHA Grade D breathing air requirements.

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An office, represented in most towns in the UK, where the public can obtain free advice on an.

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An agent who acts in the arrangements of property sales and purchases in return for a commission.

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In spray painting applications, spray equipment which delivers material at a low pressure of no more than 10 PSI (at the air cap), however, with greater volume of air.

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The westerly distance in an arc from Aries, measured as an angle at the pole or as the intercepted arc of the equinoctial between the hour angle of Aries and the hour angle of the body.

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(0.2+0.02 log10(Vc)) Vc (4d/3D)2, for passenger ships the following formula is added: 1.25 (GT+10000)/10000 (N1+(N2/10)), where Vc is the volume of cargo holds, D is the distance between ship's bottom and the uppermost deck, d is the draught N1 is the num ...

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Shipper's communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water-carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

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Is the total gas pressure (static plus velocity) at the discharge port of the compressor. Velocity pressure is considered only with dynamic compressors.

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The forward mast of a boat with more that one mast

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Is the reversal of flow within a dynamic compressor that takes place when the capacity being handled is reduced to a point where insufficient pressure is being generated to maintain flow. Also known as surge.

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An aneroid barometer with a scale graduated in altitude instead of pressure units.

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Fresh water mixed with sea water, having a density between 1,000 and 1,026 kg/cm3

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Pounds per square inch, absolute.

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Small horizontal spars extending athwartships from one or more places along the mast. The shrouds cross the end of these "spreaders", enabling the shrouds to better support the mast.

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The compartment at the bow of the vessel

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Part of the standing rigging that helps to support the mast laterally by running from the top of the mast to the side of the boat. Sailboats usually have one or more shrouds on each side of the mast. Some people call them side stays

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Brass work, polished (also varnished wood work in yachts).

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A unit or investment fund which invests in the stocks of growth companies.

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The amount of authorised share capital that shareholders have actually subscribed to a company for.

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To bring a sailing vessel to a stop with her sails still set. This can be accomplished on a square rigged ship by bracing the yards aback on her foremast; on fore-and-aft rigged boats it is done by bringing her head into the wind so that the sails are no ...

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