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• M61 Vulcan
  |manufacturer= [[General Electric]] ...g aircraft]] for fifty years. The M61 was originally produced by [[General Electric]], and after several mergers and acquisitions is currently produced by [[Ge
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• Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon
  ...ight with a laser range finder and digital fire control system. Integrated power supply and diagnostics. 280 rounds on the gun and an automatic re-loading s ...[Japan Steel Works]] for the 35mm gun and [[Mitsubishi Electric|Mitsubishi Electric Corporation]] for the rest of the system<ref>{{jp icon}} [http://rightwing.
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• QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
  Lieutenant Burne reported that the original electric firing system, while working well under ideal conditions, required support ...in the cartridge could be replaced by an adaptor which allowed the use of electric or percussion [[List of British ordnance terms#Vent-Sealing Tube|tube]] to
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  }}</ref> During World War II, servomechanisms (called "power drives" in the U.S. Navy) were developed that allowed the guns to automatic ...ain armament, but many RN battleships and cruisers were fitted with Remote Power Control (RPC) via servomotors for secondary and primary armament, by the en
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• Alternator
  ...ven by automotive and other internal combustion engines. Alternators in [[power station]]s driven by [[steam turbine]]s are called turbo-alternators. ...om the discovery of the [[Electromagnetic induction|magnetic induction of electric current]]. The early machines were developed by pioneers such as [[Michael
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• Hydroelectric
  ...[[List of the largest hydroelectric power stations|largest hydro-electric power station]] in the world]] ...lectricity generated by [[hydropower]], i.e., the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It
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• Mercury (element)
  ...oogle.com/?id=a4hPCX2XWDIC&pg=PA33|page=33|title=Domestic Architecture and Power|author=Jamieson, R W|publisher=Springer|year=2000|isbn=0306461765}}</ref> ...st aggregate source (40% of U.S. mercury emissions in 1999). This includes power plants fueled with gas where the mercury has not been removed. Emissions fr
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• Sears Source List Sears Roebuck & Company
  103 Sarlo Power Mower Inc.<br/> 113 Emerson Electric Co. http://www.emersonelectric.com/<br/>
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• Ceramic materials
  ...terials which also display the [[ferroelectric effect]], in which a stable electric dipole can be oriented or reversed by applying an electrostatic field. Pyr In the 1960s, scientists at General Electric (GE) discovered that under the right manufacturing conditions, some ceramic
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• Electroactive polymers
  ...polymer]]s that exhibits a change in size or shape when stimulated by an [[electric field]]. The most common applications of this type of material are in [[act ...’s experiment by formulating a theory on strain response to an applied [[electric field]] in 1899<ref name=ElectrochemistryEncyclopedia></ref>. It wasn’t u
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• Polypropylene
  ...lene are used as a [[dielectric]] within certain high-performance [[Pulsed power|pulse]] and low-loss [[Radio frequency|RF]] [[capacitors]]. * Indoor electric powered profile electric models
  25 KB (3,657 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2010
• Petroleum
  ...her flared off, sold as liquified petroleum gas under pressure, or used to power the refinery's own burners. During the winter, Butane (C₄H<sub>1 ...uch as those based on [[electricity]] (for example, [[electric vehicle|all-electric]] or [[hybrid vehicle]]s), [[air vehicle|compressed air]], or [[fuel cell]]
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• Metal
  ...ng an electric current over a distance with little energy lost. Electrical power grids rely on metal cables to distribute electricity. Home electrical syste ...anium]] and [[plutonium]] are used in [[Nuclear reactor technology|nuclear power plants]] to produce energy via [[nuclear fission]]. Mercury is a liquid at
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• Radioactive scrap metal
  In the case of a caesium source being melted in an [[electric arc furnace]] used for steel scrap, it is more likely that the caesium will ...fates of different elements present in ferrous scrap which is melted in an electric arc furnace. The average of the two extremes is shown and the error bars in
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• Refractory metals
  ...tallurgy]] is used. Powders of the pure metal are compacted, heated using electric current, and further fabricated by cold working with annealing steps. Refr ...gth and corrosion resistance. Thorium as an alloying compound is used when electric arcs have to be established. The ignition is easier and the arc burns more
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• Heatsetting
  [[Image:Power-Heat-Set-2Fadenspannun-e.jpg‎|thumb|diagram by Müller]] [[Image:Power-Heat-Set-Wolle-Brücke-e.jpg|frame|left|Physical and chemical forces betwee
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• Polyphenyl ether
  ...surface physics studies. Vacuum pumps are also used in the production of electric lamps, vacuum tubes, and cathode ray tubes (CRTs), semiconductor processing ...e also used as base fluids for radiation-resistant greases used in nuclear power plant mechanisms. PPEs and their derivatives have also found use as vapor
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• Kerosene
  Kerosene is widely used to power [[jet engine|jet-engined]] aircraft ([[jet fuel]]) and some [[rocket]]s, bu These were superseded by the electric light bulb and [[flashlight]]s powered by [[dry cell]] batteries, which are
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• Orangeburg pipe
  ...eburg, New York. Bradley's neighboring [[Union Electric Company]] electric power plants used exhaust steam from their steam generators to dry the fiber cond
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• Steel
  ...eny Ludlum steel furnace.jpg|thumb|right|White-hot steel pouring out of an electric arc furnace]] ...supply of cheap electricity.<ref>J.A.T. Jones, B. Bowman, P.A. Lefrank, ''Electric Furnace Steelmaking'', in ''The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel'', 52
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