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  • fiber, which transfers energy from the second pump wavelength to the signal wave. The process that causes the amplification is stimulated emission. ...
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  • kind of a centrifugal fan—an "Air Pump." Centrifugal fans were successfully tested inside coal mines and factories in 1832-1834. ...
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  • rendered farmland sterile. Aging factories pump contaminated waste into the ... manufacturing cities, where aging factories pump huge quantities of unfiltered ...
    51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
  • "If It Be Your Will" in the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume helped expose Cohen's music to a wider audience. In 1992, Cohen released The Future ...
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  • the oil burner and an electrically driven feed pump, mechanics fitted a diesel-powered generator; a diesel-powered compressor fitted and to power ...
    33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
  • demand, excess generation capacity is used to pump water into the higher reservoir. When there is higher demand, water is released back into the lower ...
    36 KB (5,567 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
  • A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling without requiring relative motion ...
    40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
  • which is somewhat like an airlift pump working in reverse. A trompe produces compressed air from falling water. Compressed air could then be ...
    73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
  • Korea and Taiwan). The Marshall Plan began to pump $12 billion into Western Europe. The rationale was that economically stable nations were less likely ...
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  • *Boiler feedwater pump *Steam generators (not in BWRs) *Steam turbine *Electrical generator *Condenser *Cooling tower (not always required) ...
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  • Wilde's lecture tour "to prime the pump" for an American tour of Patience, making sure that the ticket-buying public was aware of his ...
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  • Bladder" and the "Brass Hand Pump." In 1855, the U.S. inventor Charles Goodyear—who had patented vulcanized rubber—exhibited ...
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  • on the banks of the river. From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew cooling water from the river and, after treating this water for use by the reactors ...
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  • tariff, currency, and anti-trust laws to prime the pump and get the economy working in a 1913 political cartoon]] ====Other Economic Policies==== ...
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  • Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...
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  • century, windmills came into use to pump water out of the areas that were below sea level. The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating ...
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  • Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil is a naturally ...
    42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
  • collapse them prematurely or use large bellows to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders. Fire was often used as a weapon ...
    44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
  • # Her brain activates the adrenal glands which pump adrenaline through her blood stream, resulting in increased heartbeat. # Jenny screams and ...
    51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
  • in New York Magazine and Wolfe's own The Pump House Gang. According to Feigen and Gossage, however, their work had only a moderate impact on ...
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