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
- Glasgow in Scotland in 1756. Cullen used a pump to create a partial vacuum ... refrigerant in a suitable liquid, a liquid pump which raises the pressure ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- [[Image:Alcohol fuel pump in Brazil.jpg|thumb|300px|A filling station in Brazil offers both gasoline (left) and alcohol (right).]] ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- A Peltier cooler/heater or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- A contractile vacuole is used to pump excess water out of the cell to reduce osmotic pressure and keep the cell from bursting, which is referred ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- by which any excess fuel from the injector pump and injectors is returned ... Older engines make use of a mechanical fuel pump and valve assembly ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 2024
- carried out under reduced pressure (using a vacuum pump) to allow drying to proceed at a reasonable rate. This process avoids collapse of the solid structure ...10 KB (1,629 words) - 22:34, 19 August 2020
- 'common rail' and 'pump duse' type systems from ... required to deliver ethanol to the customer at the pump. ...36 KB (5,134 words) - 17:54, 31 October 2023
- gases, such as by using a vacuum pump or by going to high altitudes. On top of Mount Everest, for example, the pressure is about 260 mbar (26 ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- tap into an existing (city) water line or a pump that pulls water out of a ... for the first time to systems that could pump groundwater out of major aquifers ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- from many other forces, such as a fan or pump. A convection oven thus works by forced convection, as a fan that rapidly circulates hot air forces ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Agricultural technology refers to technology for the production of machines used on a farm to help with farming. Agricultural machines have been ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- sprays administered sublingually (Nitrolingual Pump Spray®, Natispray®). The principal action of nitroglycerin is vasodilation—widening of ...11 KB (1,527 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
- [[Image:essodiesel.jpg|thumb|right|A modern diesel pump]] ... Fuel is typically supplied via a fuel pump. If the pump breaks down in ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- air (and out of play) by an offensive player's pump fake. ("Popcorn Machine" is a reference to an actual popcorn machine in the old Los ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- increase diuresis by inhibiting the Na+/K+-ATPase pump in the kidney, thereby enhancing sodium and water excretion while increasing potassium reabsorption ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- by a water aspirator or a membrane pump. is normally generated by using a high vacuum pump. * The process of ...29 KB (4,405 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- 1174 and 1200 he built five machines to pump water for the kings of the ... The heart for example functions much like a pump,[http://www.smm.org/heart/lessons/lesson5a ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- prepares, and loads the drugs into an infusion pump. After the curtain is opened to allow the witnesses to see inside the chamber, the condemned person ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 23:34, 21 October 2023
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- Brachiosaurus may not have been able to pump sufficient oxygenated blood from its heart to its brain if it raised its head high above its shoulders ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- the eye through which some cartilaginous fish pump water to the gills) usually absent, pectoral radial bones attached to the scapulo-coracoid skeletal ...14 KB (1,774 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2022
- During steady-state operation of a device (see turbine, pump, and engine), the expression above may be set equal to zero. This yields a useful ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- It is also known by the names of harmonium, pump organ, parlor organ, melodeon ... two operators - a player and someone to pump the handle located on one ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- to the atmosphere. Solar outbursts can pump particles into the gap but they drain again in a matter of days. The radio waves were originally ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- to DC). They can also be used in charge pump circuits as the energy storage ... or a switch and some diodes, as in a charge pump). Thus, an equilibrium is ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- is the downward pointing leaves may act as pump handles in the wind. The ethylene may or may not additionally induce the growth of a valve in ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- manual or electric inflator (such as a hand pump) or a source of compressed air. ... are extremely hard to inflate initially. A pump is usually used to inflate ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- above the surface. A pond usually includes a pump and filtration system to keep the water clear. Koi are an omnivorous fish and will often eat ...13 KB (2,084 words) - 22:49, 18 October 2021
- FPLC involves using a pump and column which withstand high pressure so separations are quickly induced. === High performance liquid chromatography === ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
