Search results for "Pump" - New World Encyclopedia
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- have been made to dredge this alluvium and pump it in slurry pipelines to shore where it can be used to fertilize the desert. Abulnaga, Baha, ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- to respiratory systems and often used to pump water through the gills while ... quot; constantly, it is able to pump water over its gills. The ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ... cabinet organs, parlour organs, and, popularly, pump organs. ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Adsorption refrigeration and heat pump cycles rely on the adsorption ... across the phase boundary. If more than one pump is present in the system a ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- The second type of repeater is the pump action (also known as a slide ... In 1893, he produced the Model 1893 Pump Action Shotgun, introducing ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- operate other machinery, generate electricity, or pump water or compressed gas. In the context of propulsion systems, an air-breathing engine is one ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- When Boyle read of Otto von Guericke's air pump in 1657, he began ... he described his experiments with the air pump. He concluded, among other ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- often be extracted with a geothermal heat pump more cost-effectively and ... Geothermal power plants use the heat from deep inside the Earth to ...43 KB (6,456 words) - 20:26, 13 December 2023
- shot repeating rifles using lever-action, pump-action, or bolt actions became ... ===Pump action rifles=== In a pump action rifle (also known as slide ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- (In Vibrio species, the motor is a sodium ion pump, rather than a proton pump). The rotor transports protons across the membrane and is turned in ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- air system (similar to a small home aquarium pump) to be employed to circulate the air inside the waveguide over a jar of silica gel. ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- marine, water-dwelling filter feeders that pump water through their bodies ... Sponges pump remarkable amounts of water. Leuconia, for example, is ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- as a screw conveyor for the solid R1 and a pump and pipes for liquid R2. ... to heat. They will probably decide to pump the reacted mixture to another ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- drive system. The engine turns the hydraulic pump capable of high flow rates at up to 4000 psi. This pressure is then directed to the hydraulic motor ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 00:04, 8 January 2024
- and designed the world's first vacuum pump and created the world's ... Using this pump, Boyle and Hooke noticed the pressure-temperature ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- motion machine, he would still have a heat pump system that he could patent and sell. With the introduction of the automobile after the turn of ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- by an external energy source. Examples of pump sources include electricity ... is said to be saturated. The balance of pump power against gain saturation ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- in a fluid medium. Along with the heart (a pump) and blood vessels (a series of conduits), blood forms an essential part of the circulatory system ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- but operating in reverse is a compressor or pump. The axial compressor in many ... use turbopumps (machines consisting of a pump driven by a turbine engine ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. An example is Cor pulmonale, a failure of the ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
