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    rivers to scour away the bars obstructing the access to them; and they have also carried the sediment-bearing waters sufficiently far out to come under...
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    Bridge scour is the removal of sediment such as sand and gravel from around bridge abutments or piers. Hydrodynamic scour, caused by fast flowing water...
    21 KB (2,825 words) - 19:11, 28 March 2024
  • "anger can be used to scour away sin" by becoming "righteously indignant". In John W. Ritenbaugh's comments on Proverbs 15:18 in How to Survive Exile, he...
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  • "The Scouring of the Shire" is the penultimate chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry,...
    46 KB (5,710 words) - 04:29, 28 April 2024
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    Scouring is a preparatory treatment of certain textile materials. Scouring removes soluble and insoluble impurities found in textiles as natural, added...
    27 KB (2,418 words) - 17:21, 25 May 2024
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    water to prospect for ore by unleashing a wave of water from a tank to scour away the soil and so reveal the bedrock with any veins exposed to sight....
    19 KB (2,611 words) - 14:16, 4 November 2023
  • with a dry soap or detergent, soda, and possibly dry bleach. Scouring powder is used to clean encrusted deposits on hard surfaces such as ceramic tiles...
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    A scouring pad or scourer is a small pad of metal or plastic mesh used for scouring a surface. Some scouring pads have one side made of a soft sponge-like...
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    drains away through cracks, seal breathing holes, etc. The resulting turbulence is strong enough to carve a depression into the seabed. Seabed scouring by...
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    surrounding environment cause design parameters to be exceeded. Water passing through undersized culverts will scour away the surrounding soil over time. This can...
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    regions of continental Antarctica the snow is scoured away by the force of the katabatic winds, leading to "dry valleys" (or "Antarctic oases") such as...
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    TORRO tornado intensity scale – attempt to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures...
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  • through the air over 200m. Mud huts completely scoured away. Brick houses levelled. Path estimated to be 10 km long. Estimated EF3-4. Bulwer tornado 6...
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    dismantled, swept away, and reduced to concrete slabs, while trees in the area were completely shredded and debarked. Fields were scoured to a depth of 18 in...
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    2011 Super Outbreak (category Articles to be expanded from April 2020)
    covering scoured away, the occupants of which reported that structure heaved upwards slightly as the tornado passed overhead. Pavement was scoured from several...
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    mountain systems, because strong winds reduce tree growth. High winds scour away thin soils through erosion, as well as damage limbs and twigs. When high...
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    Strudel (ice) (redirect from Strudel scour)
    between strudel scours and ice scours. The former is the result of water action, as is the case for other types of scours (bridge and tidal scours); the latter...
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    through the now removed cover of stratified rocks. Glaciation has strongly scoured away the deeply weathered soils that presumably existed here in preglacial...
    9 KB (996 words) - 09:14, 7 November 2021
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    Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 (category Articles to be expanded from February 2023)
    was scoured away in a narrow swath. Several homes were reduced to bare slabs in this area, and vehicles were thrown up to 600 yards (550 m) away, including...
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    which stood on the red conglomerate; this leak increased in volume as it scoured away the foundation material already greatly softened by infiltrated water...
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