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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...but sonar contact was made. ''Stanton'' fired a pattern of hedgehogs and a deep rumble followed their explosions.
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...fect. The three escorts continued hedgehog and creeper attacks against the deep-running submarine. Shortly after 0200 on 22 April, [[Sonar|soundmen]] detec
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• USS Mills (DE-383)
  ...e of a [[radar picket]] ship and a safety and support ship for [[Operation Deep Freeze]]. == Supporting Operation Deep Freeze ==
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. ...esults. After turning the convoy over to [[United Kingdom|British]] escort vessels once she had passed through the [[Strait of Gibraltar]], ''Wilhoite'' retur
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• USS Peterson (DE-152)
  ...t to sea 3 September 1957 with fifteen other warships and eleven auxiliary vessels of Task Force 88.1, bound for [[Portland Harbour|Portland]], England. She r ...Fleet Sonar School. She departed 24 August to participate in "[[Operation Deep Freeze]] 60." She passed through the Panama Canal and arrived [[Dunedin|Dun
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• USS Pillsbury (DE-133)
  ...destroyer escort protection against [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. She returned at war's end proudly with five [[battle stars ...ttacked a surfaced German [[U-boat]]. The U-boat immediately submerged for deep evasive tactics. ''Pillsbury'' and {{USS|Flaherty|DE-135}} raced to the sce
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...of [[flying boat]]s each, but they were more expensive to build and had a deep draft, precluding their use in shallow harbors. The U.S. Navy therefore als ...[[Norway]], the [[Philippines]], and [[South Vietnam]], for use as patrol vessels and training ships, and a few saw commercial service as [[cruise ship]]s in
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• Long fiber reinforced thermoplastic
  ...nged according to customer needs. It is the material that has already been deep inside the ocean and has been utilized in space as well, because of their p *[[FRP tanks and vessels]] (The strength of the fibers is utilized to make a tank extra strong in th
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• Bitumen
  Vessels for the heating of bitumen or bituminous compounds are usually subject to s ...an or lake where they lived. Under the [[heat]] and [[pressure]] of burial deep in the earth, the remains were transformed into materials such as bitumen,
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• Textile manufacturing
  ...fibres and any added soiling or dirt. Scouring is usually carried in iron vessels called [[Boiler|kier]]s. The fabric is boiled in an [[alkali]], which forms ...ochlorite]] or dilute [[hydrogen peroxide]]. If the fabric is to be dyed a deep shade, then lower levels of bleaching are acceptable, for example. However,
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• Edward Giles Stone
  ...0608p6'>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1624032 "Shipbuilding, Concrete Vessels", ''The Argus'', Friday 8 June 1917 p6]</ref> reports a proposal of Stone's ...cargo-carriers, of course. My firm has offered to back my opinion that the vessels will be seaworthy and satisfactory, by a guarantee of £10,000, and Messrs
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• Caulking
  Traditional caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton, and [[oakum]] (hemp fiber soaked in pine [[tar]]). T ...pection Circular Number 7-01: Procedures for hull inspection and repair on vessels built of riveted construction. Issued 2001-10-09.]</ref> Originally done by
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• Prestressed concrete
  ...y be [[balcony]] elements, [[lintel]]s, floor slabs, beams or foundation [[Deep foundation|piles]]. An innovative [[bridge]] construction method using pre ...or floors in [[skyscraper|high-rise building]]s and the entire containment vessels of [[nuclear reactors]].
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• Wood
  ...y the time they become competent to conduct water, all xylem tracheids and vessels have lost their cytoplasm and the cells are therefore functionally dead. Al ...in a few instances thousands, of years old. Every broken limb or root, or deep wound from fire, insects, or falling timber, may afford an entrance for dec
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• Ethylene oxide
  Deep gas-phase reactor oxidation of ethylene oxide at 800–1000 K and a pressur ...ess, sweating, increased muscular irritability, transient spasm of retinal vessels, enlargement of the liver and suppression of its antitoxic functions.<ref n
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• Commercial fishing in Alaska
  ...Alaska has been reduced, there is a continuing pattern of losing 20 to 40 vessels every year. There are still about 100 fishermen who must be rescued each ye ...A typical length may be {{convert|1200|ft|m}} long, by {{convert|40|ft|m}} deep (distance between cork line and lead line). It is stacked on the stern of t
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• Hemoglobin
  ...idly can clog small blood vessels, especially the delicate blood filtering vessels of the [[kidney]]s, causing kidney damage. ...|title=Biochemical and enzymological aspects of the symbiosis between the deep-sea tubeworm Riftia pachyptila and its bacterial endosymbiont |journal=Eur.
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• List of eponymous medical signs
  | B || [[Bancroft's sign]] || || vascular medicine || [[deep vein thrombosis]] || || pain on anterior, but not lateral, compression of c ...[[neurology]] || [[Eaton-Lambert syndrome]] || || reappearance of absent deep tendon reflexes after short period of maximal muscle contraction
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• List of cutaneous conditions
  ...sbn=0-8493-3794-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> The function of blood vessels within the dermis is fourfold: to supply nutrition, to regulate temperature *[[Erythema annulare centrifugum]] (Deep gyrate erythema, Erythema perstans, Palpable migrating erythema, Superficia
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• Lymph vessel
  ..., and [[adventitia]] that bind the lymph vessel to the surroundings. Lymph vessels are devoted to propulsion of the lymph from the [[lymph capillaries]], whic ...ct]] or the largest lymph vessel in the body, the [[thoracic duct]]. These vessels drain into the right and left [[subclavian veins]] respectively.
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