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  • 1 cup water<br/> Simmer / steep ginger in water for 10 - 15 minutes.
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  • * Put in heavy aluminum foil, and keeps in the fridge for a long time (month-months). * Put in a glass with some water (few days, you will need to change the water).
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  • ...tered. Wash, slash two to four slits in each pepper, and blanch in boiling water or blister in order to peel tough skinned hot peppers. ...blister. Range top method: Cover hot burner, either gas or electric, with heavy wire mesh. Place peppers on burner for several minutes until skins blister.
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  • ...nts. Form a ball and twist gently the ends of the towel to extract most of water without crushing the flesh too much. # In a large heavy bottomed stainless steel pan heat the oil and cook the sesame seeds until t
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  • ...ses can be rented, purchased, or built at home. Most home presses employ a heavy screw for pressure. Pressure should be applied slowly and evenly. Fresh pre degrees F). Pour hot juice into jars. Process in a boiling water canner: 5
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  • #Take cold water (one large pail full) and put in 1-cup salt. #Pour over watermelons and put heavy weight and boards on top.
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  • In a grain grinder or heavy duty blender, crack the wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat and millet separatel To cook: For 1 serving, stir together 1 cup water, 1/3 cup cereal and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, stirring occasional
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  • ...or without soap. Immediately slip the wrapped soaked grills in a single heavy-duty plastic garbage bag, fold over the end, and leave outdoors, overnight. ...scrub them (use a bristle brush) with soap (or liquid dish detergent) and water. Hose them off again.
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  • ==WATER== *Water Filters/Purifier, Water containers(Ceramic pumps, flow throughs)
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  • ...zerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by ...r comfort. The simplest form of effective fan to cool a shelter is a wide, heavy frame with flaps that swing in the shelter's doorway and can be swung from
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  • * petroleum & water ** aerial delivery (parachute packing, air item maintenance, heavy and light equipment parachute drop, rigging and sling loading.)
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  • ...Wake Island to Hawaii, the carrier sent up a flight of SBD's to scout the water ahead. Willis took off in one of these bombers for what was intended to be Rejoining TG 22.3 on 1 May, ''Willis'' suffered minor storm damage when a heavy wave tore loose her number 1 gun shield, ripping a 4-inch hole in the deck;
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  • ...t attack blew the troop-loaded merchantman {{SS|Paul Hamilton}} out of the water, killing 580 men; the next wave hit two more merchant ships; and the final ...16 April, escorts to the south of her blasted [[U-1235]] and [[U-880]] in heavy seas. Her war diary on 16 April at 0200 noted: "Lots of fun going on in sou
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  • ...stroyer escort responded by bringing all her guns to bear and fired such a heavy and accurate barrage that the German pilot dropped his [[torpedo]] about {{ ==Heavy Luftwaffe losses==
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  • ...escorted hundreds of ships loaded with vital war materials safely past the heavy enemy submarine and air concentrations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. ...httime) covering the Mekong River Delta and the Mekong River in the "brown water navy". She made Taiwan Strait patrols in June, September, and December 196
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  • ...Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon) 12. This unit had previously taken a heavy toll of [[Japan|Japanese]] [[barge]] traffic and had wreaked much havoc upo ...the van of the southern Japanese force steamed two [[battleship]]s and a [[heavy cruiser]], screened by four [[destroyer]]s; 30 nautical miles (56 kilometer
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  • ...d cadet practice cruise to Canada, Europe, and Bermuda. She was damaged by heavy seas on 7 March 1962 while putting to sea from Norfolk to assist merchant s ...n Bermuda and the Azores after he had fallen overboard and remained in the water for 17 hours.
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  • ...ents later, a formation of "Sally" light bombers came into the area, and a heavy antiaircraft barrage claimed three of the them. CAP fighters and antiaircra ...a storm of [[typhoon]] intensity on 30 October 1944. During that spell of heavy weather, the [[storm]] carried away one of the ship's motor [[Launch (boat)
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  • ...detonate only on contact) exploded about 12 seconds after they entered the water, and ''Big Horn'' continued in to drop [[depth charge]]s. Considerable lig
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  • ...dry leaves, and kills any lurking [[venomous snake]]s, without harming the water-rich stalks and roots. Harvesters then cut the cane just above ground-level ...revolving knives to shred the cane. Shredded cane is repeatedly mixed with water and crushed between rollers; the collected juices contain 10&ndash;15 perce
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  • ...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''' 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |caption= M2HB heavy machine gun on [[M3 tripod]]. |type= [[Heavy machine gun]]
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...[[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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  • |wingspan= 69 cm (27-1/4 in. in the air), 66 cm (26 in. in the water) ...e tail fins, acting as aerodynamic stabilizers, which were to shed away on water entry.
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  • ...ed to [[carbon dioxide]], which has significant solubility in water, and [[water vapor]], much reducing the tell-tale bubble trail. However, like all torped ...rs. While IJN armed nearly all of its cruisers with Type 93s, no American heavy cruisers, and only the [[Atlanta class cruiser|''Atlanta'']] class light cr
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  • ...ailure of the alternator drive belt which normally also drives the cooling water pump. ...electric power steering systems. Very large automotive alternators may be water-cooled or oil-cooled.
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  • ...cal power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of [[renewable energy]]. Once a hydroelect ...a.net/darvill/altenerg/hydro.htm Hydroelectric power - energy from falling water] Clara.net</ref>
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  • ...tp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20107587</ref>, and may contribute to the heavy metal burden commonly found in autistic patients. ...tylcysteine has been used to complex [[palladium]], to help it dissolve in water. This helps to remove palladium from drugs or precursors synthesized by pal
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  • ...surface area of several square metres. This image of activated charcoal in water is at a scale of 6.236 pixels/[[μm]], the entire image covers a region of ...occur. PAC is generally added directly to other process units, such as raw water intakes, rapid mix basins, clarifiers, and gravity filters.
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  • ...[[blueprint]]s. It has been used as an [[antidote]] for certain kinds of [[heavy metal poisoning]]. ...als contain interstitial K<sup>+</sup> ions; insoluble PB has interstitial water instead.<br />
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  • ...Keir MJ, Record CO |title=The effect of hydrocortisone on the transport of water, sodium, and glucose in the jejunum. Perfusion studies in normal subjects a ...ormal and adrenalectomized, unanesthetized dogs: effect on electrolyte and water excretion |journal=Endocrinology |volume=62 |issue=6 |pages=804–15 |year=
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  • ...mercury has one of the broadest ranges of its liquid state of any metal. A heavy, silvery [[d-block]] [[metal]], mercury is also one of the five [[liquid me Mercury is a heavy, silvery-white metal. As compared to other metals, it is a poor conductor o
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  • ...an effective method of [[food preservation]] historically; the salt draws water out of bacteria through [[osmotic pressure]], keeping it from reproducing, | [[Water (molecule)|H<sub>2</sub>O]] || 360
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