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    Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials....
    174 KB (18,993 words) - 09:35, 21 June 2024
  • Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide...
    291 KB (25,825 words) - 18:52, 20 June 2024
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
    78 KB (9,740 words) - 22:00, 19 June 2024
  • In a steam engine, cutoff is the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed. On a steam locomotive, the cutoff is controlled by the...
    4 KB (569 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2022
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    A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80  It is fuelled by...
    145 KB (17,775 words) - 01:00, 21 June 2024
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    The lead–acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté. It is the first type of rechargeable...
    58 KB (7,494 words) - 15:44, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam donkey
    A steam donkey or donkey engine is a steam-powered winch once widely used in logging, mining, maritime, and other industrial applications. Steam powered...
    19 KB (2,210 words) - 17:15, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam turbine
    A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern...
    67 KB (9,414 words) - 03:42, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tetraethyllead
    sodium–lead alloy. 4 NaPb + 4 CH3CH2Cl → Pb(CH3CH2)4 + 4 NaCl + 3 Pb The product is recovered by steam distillation, leaving a sludge of lead and sodium...
    74 KB (7,521 words) - 19:40, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam car
    A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines...
    46 KB (6,029 words) - 02:40, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thermal power station
    energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a steam turbine connected...
    45 KB (6,097 words) - 13:40, 23 May 2024
  • Steam Spy is a website created by Sergey Galyonkin and launched in April 2015. The site uses an application programming interface (API) to the Steam software...
    18 KB (2,203 words) - 11:50, 7 January 2024
  • Steam was an American pop rock music group, best known for their 1969 number one hit single, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". The song was written and...
    12 KB (1,194 words) - 02:31, 30 March 2024
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    A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated,...
    18 KB (2,558 words) - 05:08, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Watt steam engine
    The Watt steam engine design became synonymous with steam engines, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt...
    29 KB (3,881 words) - 05:37, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valve Anti-Cheat
    Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software...
    28 KB (2,735 words) - 08:58, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam Powered Giraffe
    Steam Powered Giraffe is an American musical project formed in San Diego in 2008, self-described as "a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry...
    27 KB (2,819 words) - 14:46, 28 May 2024
  • boss' s secretary Gladys as lead performer. Carol Haney originated the role of Gladys and she sang and danced the "Steam Heat" number in the original...
    9 KB (1,078 words) - 23:58, 10 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Piston valve (steam engine)
    of valve used to control the flow of steam within a steam engine or locomotive. They control the admission of steam into the cylinders and its subsequent...
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    an adhesive tape used in autoclaving (heating under high pressure with steam to sterilise) to indicate whether a specific temperature has been reached...
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