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Emergency Medical Technicians.

Tropical Fresh

See conductivity.

Any person on board other than the master and members of the crew or other persons employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of that ship.

Large and long-winged seabird of the southern hemisphere capable of long flights. It was believed among seamen that albatrosses embodied the souls of dead sailors, and it was considered unlucky to kill one.

Grain

An instrument that automatically records pressure and temperature.

In a cathodic protection system, in electrically nonconductive material, such as a coating, plastic sheet or pipe that is placed between an anode and an adjacent cathode to avoid current wastage and to improve current distribution, usually on the cathode.

A graph that indicates the distribution of wind speeds as a function of the cumulative number of hours that the wind speed exceeds a given wind speed in a year.

National nature reserve

Usually one hundredth of a percentage point used in quoting movements in interest rates of yields on.

Same as strain hardening.

The amount of electromotive force, measured in volts, that exists between two points.

A reserve appliance; for example, a standby generator for a home or commercial building.

An inert gas. A colorless, monatomic element which is found to occur in dry air to the extent of only 0.000524 percent by volume. Helium is very light, having a molecular weight of only 4.003 and specific gravity referred to air of 0.138. Because helium i ...

Permanent Group of Experts (in agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures).

An electrical conductor that serves as a common connection for two or more electrical circuits; may be in the form of rigid bars or stranded conductors or cables.

42 U.S. gallons (306 pounds of oil, or 5.78 million Btu).

Current efficiency at the cathode.