General Council of British Shipping

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

A mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface is larger in area than the upper surface. The basic construction of a cistern barometer is as follows: A glass tube one meter in length, sealed at one end is filled with mercury, and then inverted. Th ...

Vapour pressure

An interior court to which rooms open.

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National Cargo Bureau

Ocean Drilling Program

Portable Electronic Thermometer

West European Confederation of Maritime Technology Societies

Underwriters Lab.

Thailand Home Trade Service.

A change in dimensions directly proportional to and in phase with an increase or decrease in applied force.

The partial derivative of the total electrochemical free energy of a constituent with respect to the number of moles of this constituent where all factors are kept constant. It is analogous to the chemical potential of a constituent except that it include ...

A term used by value investors to describe the issue of shares in a company at a price below the per.

Any process whereby a base metal or alloy is either (1) coated with another metal or alloy and heated to a sufficient temperature in a suitable environment or (2) exposed to a gaseous or liquid medium containing the other metal or alloy, thus causing diff ...

One carrier assumes the charges of another without any increase in charges to the shipper.

The condition of being electrically separated from other metallic structures or the environment.

Suez Canal Authority

This is the voltage-ampere requirement of a device designed to convert electric energy to a non-electrical form.