Corrosion occurring under or around a discontinuous deposit on a metallic surface. Also called poultice corrosion.

Very Large Bulk Carrier (over 180,000 DWT)

Very generally, any moving- stream of air. It has no particular technical connotation.

(AVC)Additional payments to a tax deferred savings account or an occupational pension scheme by an.

Practice of loading iron ore cargoes into every alternate hold, leaving the remaining holds empty.

A small anemometer with flat vanes which indicates the number of linear feet or meters of air which have passed the instrument during its exposure.

Thailand Home Trade Service.

A measure of proportion by weight, equivalent to one unit weight of a material per million (106) unit weights of compound. One part per million is equivalent to l mg/g

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A steam boiler on a ship deck used to supply steam to deck machinery when the main boilers are shut down.

World Dredging Association

Pertaining to measurements or devices in which the output varies continuously, i.e. voltage or rotation signals. Compare to digital.

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 ...

Imparting resistance to oxidation to an iron or steel surface by heating in aluminum powder at 800 to 1000

Port Aft

An interior court to which rooms open.

The pressure exerted by the atmosphere as a consequence of gravitational attraction exerted upon the "column" of air lying directly above the point in question.

General Council of British Shipping

The interval between full moon and change of moon and the highest high tide.

The electrode of an electrolytic cell at which reduction is the principal reaction. (Electrons How toward the cathode in the external circuit.) Typical cathodic processes are cation' taking up electrons and being discharged, oxygen being reduced. and the ...