Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

The least noble potential where pitting or crevice corrosion, or both, will initiate and propagate.

Electric.

Women's International Shipping and Trading Association

Taxes which are charged as a percentage of the value of an asset. Stamp Duty, which is charged on.

A ladder of rope with rungs, used over the side.

A list of elements arranged according to their standard electrode potentials, with "noble" metals such as gold being positive and "active" metals such as zinc being negative.

Committee set up by the Bank of International Settlements and based in Basle. It drew up.

A factor of proportionality representing the amount of substance diffusing across a unit area through a unit concentration gradient in unit time.

The unit of speed in the nautical system; one nautical mile per hour. It is equal to 1.1508 statute miles per hour or 0.5144 meters per second.

The relationship which the return on a stock has with the return on the market as a whole, often.

(1) Broken water at bow of a vessel making way. (2) Disturbed water made by a propeller or paddle wheel. (3) The rush or sweeping of waves on a bank, shore, or vessel.

The component of a combustion device that regulates the amount of air entering the combustion chamber.

Generally speaking the word amidships means in the middle portion of a vessel.

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

(1) An iron mineral crystallizing in therhombohedral system; the most important oreof iron. (2) An iron oxide, Fe,O,, corrcsponding to an iron content of approximately 70%.

The measure of seasonal or annual efficiency of a residential heating furnace or boiler. It takes into account the cyclic on/off operation and associated energy losses of the heating unit as it responds to changes in the load, which in turn is affected by ...

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(1) Water having salinity values ranging from approximately 0.5 to l7 parts per thousand. (2) Water having less salt than seawater, but undrinkable.

A psychrometer in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.