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• Sugar beet
  ...passed to a machine called a diffuser to extract the sugar content into a water solution. ...sugar from the cossettes using less water than if they merely sat in a hot water tank. The liquid exiting the diffuser is called '''''raw juice'''''. The co
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• Soap
  '''Soap''' is an anionic surfactant used in conjunction with water for washing and [[cleaning]], which historically comes either in solid [[mo ...irt and oils, while the ionic end dissolves in water. Therefore, it allows water to remove normally-insoluble matter by emulsification.
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• Mking Charcoal: Indirect by burning inside a barrel
  ...a clean burning fuel (such as natural or LP gas) the emissions are mostly water vapors with very little smoke. It is not difficult to do and, even when bur ...If there is a spark, the charcoal may "catch", but just douse it with some water. The charcoal will still be hot enough to dry out.
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• Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove
  ...l to 20% charcoal and boil off almost (not quite equal) the same amount of water as the weight of fuel. FOM ranges from .85 to .95. Burn time is typically b ...cooked maize-meal in order to stabilise the stove (the final product is a heavy cake). Should the flame in the combustion chamber fail, the pot can be remo
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• Arc Welding
  ...lement. If the electrodes used for welding contain traces of moisture, the water decomposes in the heat of the arc and the liberated hydrogen enters the lat ...ant. To prevent them, [[welder]]s wear protective clothing in the form of heavy leather gloves and protective long sleeve jackets to avoid exposure to extr
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• USS Tucumcari (PGH-2)
  |Ship propulsion=Proteus gas turbine driving water jets ...maneuverable, prototype hydrofoil gunboat designed to perform well even in heavy weather, represented the culmination of 10 years of hydrofoil development.
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• 30mm DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun
  ...craft armed with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives. ...ly equipped with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives."<ref name=IDR30Oct07/>
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• 7,62 ITKK 31 VKT
  ...not adequate for the task. A development plan for 1930-1934 called for 125 heavy 13,2&nbsp;mm machine guns and 125 7,62&nbsp;mm machine guns. The task for d ...0 rounds per minute for each gun. The weapon is also air cooled instead of water cooled, and has a barrel jacket closely resembling the one in [[Lahti-Salor
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• 76/62mm Allargato
  ...n the opinion of the Italian Navy in the 1950s, the 5-inch was seen as too heavy for many warships while the 40mm/L60 was deemed too light for use as the ma ...h is water-sprayed cooled. The cannon and its loading tray is covered in a water tight turret cover that is also protection against small shell splinters. A
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...used [[zinc]] shell cases that burned up when fired. This proved to leave heavy zinc deposits in the barrel, and had to be abandoned. In the summer of 1930 ...side their [[QF 3 inch 20 cwt|3-inch]] and [[QF 3.7 inch AA gun|3.7-inch]] heavy weapons. The gun was considered so important to the defence of England afte
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• Carl Gustav M/45
  ...destine use. A variant used by the Navy SEALs used a modified M3 silencer, heavy and cumbersome and lacking in service life it was soon replaced by a much b
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• Dahlgren gun
  ...der. Later a lighter 12-pounder (the “small”) and a rifled 12-pounder heavy howitzer were introduced. All of the boat howitzers were very similar in d The small and the light 12-pounder boat howitzers were not popular. The heavy 12-pounder howitzers were most popular at their intended jobs, while the 24
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• Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2
  ...n is designed to be rugged and resistant to dirt; this makes it relatively heavy. [[Depleted uranium]] enhanced armor-piercing shells suitable for the GSh-3 ...t of 115&nbsp;kg. The GSh-30K is a modified version with 2400&nbsp;mm long water-cooled barrels, a variable rate of fire, and dimensions of 2944 x 222 x 195
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  |caption= M2HB heavy machine gun on [[M3 tripod]]. |type= [[Heavy machine gun]]
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...from {{convert|4000|yd|abbr=on}}; two hit, stopping the target dead in the water. Daspit immediately fired another two; these hit as well. With no enemy ant ...|Pearl Harbor attackers]]) was machined to take the place of the Mark VI's heavy pin block so inertial forces would be lower. Electrical switches, developed
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• Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon
  ...t-war 20 mm KAA 204 Gk cannon. Several designs were developed, including a water cooled design, designated Mk 352, which was tested by the [[U.S. Navy]]. ...mably hit by 35 mm splinters over [[Sapper Hill]] on June 12 and sustained heavy damage.<ref>”During the attack, Macleod's aircraft was hit by shrapnel wh
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• Parrott rifle
  ...t was applied to the gun red-hot and then the gun was turned while pouring water down the muzzle, allowing the band to attach uniformly.<ref name="Gusley">G ...rkwood.ucs.indiana.edu]. Citing Martin, David G. "Data File 023: Civil War Heavy Artillery". <i>Strategy & Tactics</i>, No. 81, Jul/Aug. 1980</ref><ref name
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• QF 2 pounder naval gun
  ...curately over a distance of {{convert|3000|yd|m|sigfig=3}}. The barrel was water cooled and the shells were belt-fed from a 25 round fabric belt. The [[Boer ...Maxim gun produced by [[Vickers]]. It was a 40&nbsp;mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915 by the
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• RBL 7 inch Armstrong gun
  ...g|William Armstrong]]'s new and innovative [[breechloading]] mechanism for heavy rifled guns. The Armstrong "screw" breech mechanism used involved a heavy block inserted in a vertical slot in the barrel behind the chamber, with a
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• Stridsvagn 103
  ...[[AB Landsverk|Landsverk]], [[Volvo]] and [[Bofors]] responded with a new heavy tank design, known under the codename '''KRV''', fitted with a 155mm smooth ...ry concept of a tank, i.e., a mobile, protected gun platform able to bring heavy firepower to bear upon the enemy while attacking. Hence the S-Tank must be
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