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Pacemakers
Pacemaker The pacemaker is an electronic biomedical device that can regulate the human heartbeat when its natural regulating mechanisms break down. It is a small box surgically implanted in the chest cavity and has electrodes that are in direct contact with the heart. First... Read more |
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Bracknell
Bracknell , city (1991 pop. 52,257), Bracknell Forest, S England. Bracknell was designated one of the new towns in 1949, in order to alleviate overpopulation in London. In 1949, Bracknell was a market town of some 5,000 persons, with timber yards and a brickmaking industry. Population growth... Read more |
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Heart rate
cardiac cycle The series of muscular contractions which squeeze blood through the heart. In Amphibia and higher vertebrates, blood is pumped through a double circulatory system. The right side of the heart pumps blood through the pulmonary circuit to reach the lungs, the left side pumps oxygenated... Read more |
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Heat Pump
Heat Pump Background As a result of society's increasing concern for ecological and environmental issues, the demand for more efficient ways to utilize heat and energy is rising. The heat pump industry uses technological advances such as year-round space heating to displace... Read more |
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carburetor
carburetor , part of a gasoline engine in which liquid fuel is converted into a vapor and mixed with a regulated amount of air for combustion in the cylinders. Land vehicles, boats, and light aircraft have a float carburetor, in which a float regulates the fuel level in a reservoir from which the... Read more |
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Muskegon
Muskegon , city (1990 pop. 40,283), seat of Muskegon co., W Mich., on Lake Michigan; inc. as a city 1869. A port of entry, the city is a car-ferry terminus and a shipping point for a farm, fruit, and industrial region. Among its many manufactures are automobile parts and engines, foundry products,... Read more |
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pump
pump device to lift, transfer, or increase the pressure of a fluid (gas or liquid) or to create a vacuum in an enclosed space by the removal of a gas (see vacuum pumps under vacuum ). The centrifugal pump, the most common kind, consists basically of a rotating device, called an impeller, inside a... Read more |
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flywheel
flywheel heavy metal wheel attached to a drive shaft, having most of its weight concentrated at the circumference. Such a wheel resists changes in speed and helps steady the rotation of the shaft where a power source such as a piston engine exerts an uneven torque on the shaft or where the load is... Read more |
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bellows
bellows expansible, gas-tight chamber used to pump or store a gas. One of the simplest and most familiar types of bellows is the manual one used for providing a forced draft to a fire. The expansible chamber consists of a leather bag with pleated sides. The bag is fixed between handles in such a... Read more |
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fuel injection
fuel injection system in an internal-combustion engine that delivers fuel or a fuel-air mixture to the cylinders by means of pressure from a pump. It was originally used in diesel engines because of diesel fuel's greater viscosity and the need to overcome the high pressure of the compressed air... Read more |
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Saving Yen or saving tradition.(self-service gasoline stations slow to catch...
...SELF-SERVE GASOLINE MAKES SLOW INROADS INTO...in gasoline price consciousness...represent forces of change -- though...only gradual change. In Japan...dispensers, pump the gasoline...lower ... |
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Drop in oil slow to reach pumps in Europe
...2008 Drop in oil slow to reach pumps in EuropeByline...profit margins. Gasoline prices in Britain...Catalist. These prices are down 10 percent...from a peak in pump prices July 17. Gasoline ... |
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OIL PRICES DIP, BUT NOT AT GASOLINE PUMP
...prices for gasoline this summer. While the price of oil recently...not the lower prices will show up at the local pump is anybody...Record gasoline price hikes have...Traders said the price ... |
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CRUDE OIL PRICES KEEP GASOLINE LOW EXPERT SAYS PUMP CHARGES MAY TUMBLE EVEN...
...to keep retail gasoline prices at historic...gasoline at the pump has fallen a...service combined prices were $1.0924...same time pump prices have fallen dramatically...how does the price of ... |
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Decreasing Crude Costs, Slow Demand Keep Gas Prices Low.
...oil costs and slow demand at the pump are dragging gasoline prices down...half their price a year ago...the weakening prices unless nonmembers...drop in the price of crude oil...decline in ... |
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Auto Club: Gas Prices Continue Their Slow Rise; Pump Prices Increase for the...
...2002 The price of gasoline inched upward...increases at the pump. The Weekend...San Diego the price is $1.368...have an average price of $1.383...last week's price. "Typically, gas prices don't ... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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Gasoline prices pump up inflation to 3-month high
...A big jump in gasoline prices pushed inflation...reported that wholesale prices rose by 0.5 percent...surge in gasoline prices, the biggest one...lamented the high fuel prices and said he attributes...investigate any ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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GASOLINE PINCHES AT PUMP.(Business)
...the price of gasoline has shot up an...influencing the price of gas at the...is the higher price of crude, she...The climb in gas prices might not be over...but she said the price of gas normally...not expected to ... |
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Lower Oil Prices Slow in Reaching Pump
...by a New Year's change in the investment...consumers. Drops in gasoline prices tend to lag...average nationwide price for unleaded regular...Though gasoline prices have dropped in the...historically high ... |
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ARCO comments on gasoline prices and the Iraq-Kuwait crisis. (American...
...ARCO COMMENTS ON GASOLINE PRICES AND THE...retail gasoline pumps even though gasoline...costs of supply change with the spot...S. gasoline prices is likewise ... |
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