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Ballast is dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Ballast, other than cargo, may be placed in a vehicle, often...5 KB (728 words) - 22:05, 3 January 2024
An electrical ballast is a device placed in series with a load to limit the amount of current in an electrical circuit. A familiar and widely used example...24 KB (3,008 words) - 16:27, 26 May 2024- A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability...19 KB (2,625 words) - 00:35, 30 October 2023
A ballast tractor is a specially weighted tractor unit of a heavy hauler combination. It is designed to utilize a drawbar to pull or push heavy or exceptionally...16 KB (1,753 words) - 19:48, 8 May 2024- Ballast is extra weight placed low in ships to lower their centre of gravity, which increases stability (more technically, to provide moment to resist...7 KB (1,308 words) - 04:14, 30 May 2024
Ballast also physically holds the track in place as the trains roll over it. Not all types of railway tracks use ballast. A variety of materials have...12 KB (1,386 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
A ballast regulator (also known as a ballast spreader or ballast sweeper) is a piece of railway maintenance equipment used to shape and distribute the...6 KB (645 words) - 16:13, 19 January 2024
Track renewal train (section Ballast handling)train completes the tasks, the ballast will be put back on the track. For track renewal trains that do not have ballast excavating machines included, workers...9 KB (1,172 words) - 08:02, 28 May 2024
A ballast cleaner (also known as an undercutter, a shoulder ballast cleaning machine) is a machine that specialises in cleaning the railway track ballast...7 KB (735 words) - 02:53, 11 January 2023
wakeboard boats will have several features that help to create large wakes. These include ballast, hydrofoil, and hull technology. Ballast is a simple term...5 KB (714 words) - 23:26, 4 February 2024
Ballast Point Lighthouse was a lighthouse in California, situated on Ballast Point, a tiny peninsula extending into San Diego Bay from Point Loma, San...8 KB (989 words) - 01:10, 14 August 2023- Corrosion in Ballast Tanks is the deterioration process where the surface of a ballast tank progresses from microblistering, to loss of tank coating,...8 KB (922 words) - 14:35, 28 May 2024
An emergency main ballast tank blow is a procedure used aboard a submarine that forces high-pressure air into its main ballast tanks. The high-pressure...3 KB (278 words) - 00:10, 22 April 2024- Ballast weights may be added to a race car to alter its performance. In most racing series, cars have a minimum weight. Often, the actual weight of the...1 KB (146 words) - 10:50, 25 April 2024
International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (Ballast Water Management Convention or BWM Convention) is a 2004...17 KB (1,257 words) - 16:04, 1 June 2024
Ballast Point Brewing Company is an American brewery founded in 1996 by Jack White in San Diego, California. Ballast Point Brewing Co. started in the back...15 KB (1,389 words) - 04:11, 30 September 2023
The Ballast Bank, situated in Wexford Harbour, Ireland, is a man made structure, built in 1832. Ballast is any material used for stabilisation. In Wexford...10 KB (1,154 words) - 13:36, 25 October 2023
Fluorescent lamp (section Ballast)lamp ballasts have a power factor of less than unity. Inductive ballasts include power factor correction capacitors. Simple electronic ballasts may also...96 KB (11,321 words) - 20:48, 5 June 2024- "This Is the Time (Ballast)" is a song by American rock band Nothing More. The song was released as the lead single from the band's self-titled album...4 KB (306 words) - 23:05, 29 February 2024
Tamping machine (redirect from Ballast tamper)machine or ballast tamper, informally simply a tamper, is a self-propelled, rail-mounted machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway...17 KB (2,226 words) - 02:12, 14 May 2023
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 Ballast 2928641911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 — Ballast BALLAST (O. Swed. barlast, perhaps from bar, bare
- need ballast—a lot of it—and in flat alluvial plains, ballast material is not always easy to come by. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to have an
- shiny on the top surface. Ballast in sidings and maintenance areas will be oily and grimy compared with main line ballast which is much cleaner. Where