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    chemical forms derived from coal combustion methods and emission controls: Fly ash is captured after coal combustion by filters (bag houses), electrostatic...
    78 KB (9,165 words) - 17:05, 16 May 2024
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    Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, produced during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches)...
    81 KB (9,829 words) - 16:19, 30 May 2024
  • the molten ash that has collected at the base to flow into the ash hopper below. The ash hopper in wet-bottom furnaces contains quenching water. When...
    2 KB (324 words) - 20:41, 7 November 2023
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    mechanisms responsible for forming volcanic glass, the most effective is quenching by water, followed by cooling by entrained air in an eruption column....
    6 KB (716 words) - 17:52, 17 July 2023
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    In more modern coke plants an advanced method of coke cooling uses air quenching. The solid residue remaining from refinement of petroleum by the "cracking"...
    35 KB (4,428 words) - 03:05, 25 May 2024
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    cools and solidifies in the water from the outside inward. This thermal quenching may be described by means of a simplified model of a rapidly cooled sphere...
    20 KB (2,334 words) - 13:03, 3 May 2024
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    and several other settlements. The eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and volcanic gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), erupting molten rock and...
    68 KB (7,628 words) - 12:46, 24 May 2024
  • "bleaching" and "quenching" operations, merely specifying a low iron content does not guarantee good whiteness. Energetically modified cement Quenching Sintering...
    10 KB (1,542 words) - 22:20, 9 October 2023
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    alkali and water contents. Excessive water present during cooling and quenching of rhyolitic lava causes obsidian to hydrate (i.e., water entering the...
    4 KB (533 words) - 20:39, 9 August 2022
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    the exterior. However the bulk of Vulcanian deposits are fine grained ash. The ash is only moderately dispersed, and its abundance indicates a high degree...
    75 KB (7,669 words) - 22:04, 3 June 2024
  • guitarist for the Northern Irish alternative rock band Ash Mark Hamilton (guitarist), with UK rock band Quench Mark Hamilton (singer), Canadian indie rock musician...
    998 bytes (154 words) - 14:08, 14 October 2023
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    collection of bottom ash. This hopper is kept filled with water to quench the ash and clinkers falling down from the furnace. Arrangements are included...
    57 KB (5,856 words) - 04:20, 9 May 2024
  • be quenched very rapidly from a high temperature to form glass that is free of any crystalline content. Microlites have been found in volcanic ash collected...
    2 KB (234 words) - 13:44, 27 July 2023
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    process for hydraulic cement was found by ancient Romans who used volcanic ash (pozzolana) with added lime (calcium oxide). Non-hydraulic cement (less common)...
    80 KB (9,341 words) - 10:51, 31 May 2024
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    eruption. The ash caused "such vivid red sunsets that fire engines were called out in New York, Poughkeepsie, and New Haven to quench the apparent conflagration"...
    41 KB (4,917 words) - 12:31, 1 June 2024
  • original lake had been displaced with shattered rock fragments formed by the quenching and fracturing of lava from thermal shock. Subsequent eruptions of the...
    78 KB (10,171 words) - 22:22, 5 June 2024
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    lava, and solidifying of the flow closer to the vent, probably by rapid quenching in a wet environment. Sideromelane often forms during explosions of submarine...
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    methods of forging were also used, such as the use of power hammers, and quenching the blade in oil, rather than hand forging and water. The non-traditionally...
    68 KB (7,503 words) - 03:52, 4 June 2024
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    photosynthesis, and they provide photoprotection via non-photochemical quenching. Carotenoids that contain unsubstituted beta-ionone rings (including β-carotene...
    44 KB (5,232 words) - 22:37, 14 April 2024
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    is glass found with pillow basalts that were produced by non-explosive quenching and fracturing of basaltic glass. These are still classed as phreatomagmatic...
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