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  • Thumbnail for Force-feeding
    Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky described how he was force-fed: The feeding pipe was thick, thicker than my nostril, and would not go in. Blood came gushing...
    32 KB (3,720 words) - 18:31, 29 August 2024
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    that featured a cambered, louvered, neck and a galvanized re-breather feed pipe out of the side of the chimney that siphoned stack gas back into the burn...
    10 KB (1,336 words) - 21:05, 25 February 2024
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    polyphonic instrument. Its construction includes six parts (mouthpiece, air feed pipe, sheng dou (笙斗, body), sheng guan (笙管, pipes), reed, and resonator tube)...
    13 KB (1,595 words) - 12:21, 6 September 2024
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    they serve to keep spider populations down; larvae feed on living paralyzed spiders. The organ pipe mud dauber ranges from Southeastern Canada to the Eastern...
    10 KB (1,196 words) - 12:04, 22 June 2024
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    District heating (redirect from Steam Pipe)
    from the hot feed pipe, say 80 ˚C and coupled to the return pipe, at e.g. 40 ˚C. By adding a heat pump locally to this user, the 40 ˚C pipe is cooled further...
    131 KB (14,000 words) - 19:45, 12 September 2024
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    through a feed pipe extending inside the drum, along the length of the steam drum. A steam drum is used without or in the company of a mud-drum/feed water...
    4 KB (617 words) - 22:31, 17 September 2023
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    November. A forensic examination of the vehicle revealed a joint on the feeding pipe between the petrol tank and the carburettor of the vehicle had been loosened...
    49 KB (6,319 words) - 02:54, 19 August 2024
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    The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because...
    83 KB (10,044 words) - 20:28, 14 September 2024
  • hollow metal pipe carrying radio waves. In a parabolic (dish) antenna the feed is usually also defined to include the feed antenna (feed horn) which emits...
    21 KB (2,836 words) - 20:01, 11 September 2024
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    can occur during the full-scale process. Some of the disadvantages are: Feed pipe/effluent sieve blocking Nonhomogeneous mixing Carrier voids blocking Destroyed...
    20 KB (2,272 words) - 14:37, 25 April 2024
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    decision was made to build a new 24-inch main feeding pipe.: 7  The construction job of the new feeder pipe was given to YIT and it cost 11.7 million markka...
    23 KB (3,190 words) - 06:41, 19 January 2023
  • usually found in utility plants. Raw coal is gravity-fed through a central feed pipe to the grinding table where it flows outwardly by centrifugal action and...
    15 KB (2,265 words) - 14:15, 2 April 2024
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    This was because the petrol in the float was being thrown away from the feed pipe to the supercharger. The fuel injected Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine gave...
    33 KB (2,714 words) - 11:57, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opel cam-in-head engine
    sintered metal dry cylinder sleeves, piston cooling oil squirts with oil feed pipe outside cylinder block and high volume oil pump. Variants of the 2.3 litre...
    40 KB (5,226 words) - 22:19, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centrifugal water–oil separator
    the separator takes place as stationary feed pipe suctions the mixture liquid into the cone-shaped pipe that feeds into the vortex. After the filtration...
    8 KB (914 words) - 00:59, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam whistle
    measured 3.5 inches diameter and the whistle was supplied by a four-inch feed pipe. Other records of large whistles include an 1893 account of U.S. President...
    48 KB (6,016 words) - 09:41, 29 August 2024
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    Exhaust system (redirect from Exhaust pipe)
    the exhaust pipe stops it from overheating the engine room where people must work to service the engine. Feeding water into the exhaust pipe cools the exhaust...
    26 KB (3,367 words) - 21:02, 5 September 2024
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    side pipe and a half of the width-wise lower rear cockpit pipe were used as the return path. Likewise, the upper right side pipe was the oil feed to the...
    19 KB (2,513 words) - 10:49, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash
    tank. If the drain cock in the cross-feed pipe was still open to the atmosphere, air would be drawn into the pipe, causing an interruption of fuel supply...
    56 KB (7,524 words) - 07:47, 24 August 2024
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    Gravity feed is the use of earth's gravity to move something (usually a liquid) from one place to another. It is a simple means of moving a liquid without...
    1 KB (165 words) - 19:19, 6 June 2024
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