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  • 21Pistol pipe — Pistol Pis tol, n. [F. pistole, pistolet, It. pistola; prob. from a form Pistola, for Pistoja, a town in Italy where pistols were first made. Cf. {Pistole}.] The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, now of many patterns, and …

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  • 22environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction       infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …

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  • 23pump — pump1 pumpable, adj. pumpless, adj. pumplike, adj. /pump/, n. 1. an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes. 2. Engin., Building Trades. a shore …

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  • 24tunnels and underground excavations — ▪ engineering Introduction        Great tunnels of the world Great tunnels of the worldhorizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening …

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  • 25Water heating — is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and space heating. In industry, both hot water and water heated to steam have… …

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  • 26pipage — noun 1. a fee charged for the use of pipes • Derivationally related forms: ↑pipe • Hypernyms: ↑fee 2. a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. • Syn: ↑pipe, ↑piping …

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  • 27Corrib gas controversy — Shell to Sea protest at the intended refinery site at Bellanaboy, November 2007 The Corrib gas controversy concerns plans by Shell E P Ireland, Statoil Exploration (Ireland) Limited, Vermilion Energy Trust and the Irish government for processing… …

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  • 28Pump — For information on Wikipedia project related discussions, see . A pump is a device used to move gases, liquids or slurries. A pump moves liquids or gases from lower pressure to higher pressure, and overcomes this difference in pressure by adding… …

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  • 30COGEMA La Hague site — La Hague The AREVA NC La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of AREVA in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has nearly half of the world s light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been …

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