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Prime Rate
PRIME RATE The prime rate is the rate of interest, reported as a percentage, charged by commercial banks on short-term loans to the nation's largest, most credit-worthy corporations. Relatively few U.S. corporations may borrow at this rate. Occasionally banks lend slightly below the prime rate to... Read more |
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coaming
coaming, the name given to the raised lip, usually about 15–23 centimetres (6–9 in.) high, with which openings in the upper deck, such as hatchways leading to the deck below, are framed to prevent any water on deck from running down the opening into the space below. They also serve as... Read more |
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safety lamp
safety lamp oil lamp designed for safe use in mines and other places where flammable gases such as firedamp (see damp ) may be present. Its invention (c.1816) is usually attributed to Sir Humphry Davy. The Davy lamp is based upon the principle that to be ignited a substance must first be heated to... Read more |
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transpiration
transpiration in botany, the loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants. Some evaporation occurs directly through the exposed walls of surface cells, but the greatest amount takes place through the stomates, or intercellular spaces (see leaf ). Transpiration functions to effect the ascent... Read more |
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harness
harness comprehensive term for the gear of a draft animal, excluding the yoke, by which it is attached to the load that it pulls. Although harnesses are used on dogs (for drawing travois and dogsleds), on goats, and sometimes on oxen, the typical harness is for horses. There are two main... Read more |
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sublimation
sublimation , change of a solid substance directly to a vapor without first passing through the liquid state. The term is also used to describe the reverse process of the gas changing directly to the solid again upon cooling. An example of sublimation is seen when iodine, on being heated, changes... Read more |
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Shame
Shame BIBLIOGRAPHY Shame occupies an important place both among the emotions and as a key component in social relationships. It might well be called “the master emotion” for reasons to be discussed below. But why so much attention to one emotion? This emphasis has been difficult... Read more |
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upwelling
upwelling describes the process in which water from deep down is brought up to the surface along divergent fronts in the open ocean, in the lee of headlands along coasts, and as a result of the interaction between Coriolis force and the effects of alongshore winds. Where the upwelled water comes... Read more |
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torpor
torpor A state of adaptive hypothermia used by endotherms in order to save energy. In torpor, the body temperature of an animal may fall to within 1 °C of the environmental temperature, which in some cases may itself be at about or even just below freezing. All metabolic processes slow down to... Read more |
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Pa. Plans Seismic Study Of Countylooking For Places To Store Carbon Dioxide
...Pennsylvania's carbon dioxide emissions could...at what's below the surface...250 years. Go down 3,000 feet...which carbon dioxide emissions are...emissions of carbon ... |
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Pa. Plans Seismic Study Of County ; Looking For Places To Store Carbon Dioxide
...Pennsylvania's carbon dioxide emissions could...at what's below the surface...250 years. Go down 3,000 feet...which carbon dioxide emissions are...emissions of carbon ... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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The other carbon-dioxide problem; Ocean acidification.
...different levels of carbon dioxide to see what will...waters. As carbon dioxide levels go up, pH levels come down. Acidity depends...ever more carbon dioxide, and the gas...can dissolve or ... |
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Oiling the wheels of further North Sea progress
...expectation for recovery might have been 800 to 1,000...seven million tones of carbon dioxide below ground to force the oil...Sea. Where goes Forties go the rest of our fields...was that we would set down the thresholds in ... |
 "Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)")
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Boulder spews more CO2.
...program to tax carbon and use the...started counting carbon. Part of...annually -- will go toward encouraging...cutting carbon dioxide to 7 percent below 1990 levels...working to nail down the ... |
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YOUR money: Fancy a nice little motor? AVOID THE PITFALLS OF BUYING NEW OR...
...should you go for? First...your car's carbon dioxide emissions. If they're below 100 grams per...extra cost might be before making...rival insurers might charge by talking...more advice go online at ... |
 "Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)")
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Thailand's First Motorcycle Brand Set to Pounce on Japanese Market.
Apr. 11--It might sound like entering...completely knocked-down (CKD) kits will begin...emission regulations with carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon levels below the standard level...subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www... |
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United Nations Works through Night to Produce Global Warming...
...emissions of carbon dioxide must drop to 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels...We are closing down our small hydropower...naturally absorb carbon dioxide, the principal...issue and it might be better ... |
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Airline Finance News - Europe.
...cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions to 10 and 20 percent below 2005 levels over the...diplomats said the cuts might be linked to a tax...ultimately where I want to go, but that will take...when ticket prices are ... |
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It's a brilliant ad - but can the A2really do 100mpg?; How we put the stylish...
...had to let the tyres down a bit to do that...have the getupand-go to take advantage...run but, try as I might, the best I could...like its 116gm/km carbon dioxide output, which positions it well below the lowest 165gm ... |
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