Petroleum Association of Japan

A vessel or tank where heat produced from the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, fuel oil, or coal is used to generate hot water or steam for applications ranging from building space heating to electric power production or industrial process heat.

An air infiltration measurement technique developed by the Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure changes over time (one week to five months) when determining a building's air infiltration rate. This test cannot locate exact points of infiltration, but ...

The process whereby a position on the scale of an instrument is identified with the magnitude of the signal (or input force) actuating the instrument.

Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (USA)

Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

Regular investment of a fixed dollar amount in a mutual fund with dividends.

The maximum load that a generating unit, power plant, or other electrical apparatus can carry under specified conditions for a given period of time, without exceeding its approved limits of temperature and stress.

Same as atmospheric pressure.

A hole in a tank, boiler or compartment on a ship, designed to allow the passage of a man for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

To hold the mainsail or jib off to the side to cause the wind to blow onto the backside of the sail, used to slow a boat

A raised area, often dome shaped, resulting from (1) loss of adhesion between a coating or deposit and the base metal or (2) delamination under the pressure of expanding gas trapped in a metal in a near-subsurface zone. Very small blisters may be called p ...

An electrode widely used as a reference electrode of known potential in electrometric measurement of acidity and alkalinity, corrosion studies, voltammetry, and measurement of the potentials of other electrodes. See also electrode potential, reference ele ...

International Code for Vessels Carrying Chemicals in Bulk (IMO)

Units in a unit trust where the income from the trust's investments is reinvested in the trust.

A rain gauge which indicates but does not record the amount of precipitation captured.

A term from Latin meaning, "according to value."

A coating developed on a metal surface by a high temperature diffusion process (as carburization, calorizing, or chromizing).

Underwriters Laboratories

An electrolytic cell, the electromotive force of which is due to a difference in air (oxygen) concentration at one electrode as compared with that at another electrode of the same material; an oxygen concentration cell (a cell resulting from a potential d ...