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 ...

The incremental cost to an electric power producer to generate or purchase a unit of electricity or capacity or both.

Commodities such as metals, coffee and grain which are bought and sold for use as opposed to hedging.

Gearless

To remove the ballast from the a ship.

The difference between the price of a futures contract and the spot or cash price. The item being.

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An accelerated corrosion test for electrodeposits.

An instrument for rapidly obtaining samples of airborne dust; a type of dust counter. Particles pass through a cylindrical chamber, are drawn at high velocity through a narrow slit, and then impinge upon a microscope cover glass located a short distance f ...

A thin, inhibiting paint, usually chromate pigmented with a polyvinyl butyrate binder.

Removal of dissolved mineral matter, generally from water.

Closed, curved, flexible tube of elliptic cross section which is deformed, according to type, by variations of atmosphere spheric pressure or temperature and so provides a measurement of the particular parameter.

Occurs in the base metal adjacent to weldments due to high through-thickness strains introduced by weld metal shrinkage in highly restrained joints. Tearing occurs by decohesion and linking along the working direction of the base metal; cracks usually run ...

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System

An electrical device that adjusts the leading current of an applied alternating current to balance the lag of the circuit to provide a high power factor.

The part of the boat behind the beam.

A method of growing large size, high quality semiconductor crystal by slowly lifting a seed crystal from a molten bath of the material under careful cooling conditions.

Grain

To push a sail out so that the wind fills the opposite side, thus slowing the boat down.