McGraw hill dictionary of geology and mineralogy

... skamиədиər gaj } ¨ ¯ [ENG] A branch of rheology; the study of the behavior of fluids under conditions of internal shear; the technology of measuring viscosities of fluids { vi skamиəиtre } ¨ ¯ viscose ... spaut } ˙ ˙ water-supply engineering [CIV ENG] A branch of civil engineering concerned with the development of sources of supply, transmission, distribution, and treatm...

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... 10 12 4 .18 4 ϭ 4.655328 ϫ 10 14 cal 10 1.325 6.324 210 ϫ 10 20 1. 218 579 ϫ 10 21 8.4623 51 ϫ 10 18 1. 675545 ϫ 10 25 2.246944 ϫ 10 25 6.58 514 1 ϫ 10 21 2. 613 195 ϫ 10 19 2. 611 448 ϫ 10 19 1. 60 217 6 ϫ 10 19 ϭ 1. 782662 ... 3.8 610 22 ϫ 10 11 5.6 818 18 ϫ 10 Ϫ4 1. 893939 ϫ 10 Ϫ4 1. 578283 ϫ 10 Ϫ5 6. 213 712 ϫ 10 Ϫ4 6. 213 712 ϫ 10 Ϫ6 mi 0 .11 111 11 7. 716 049...

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... length of the shorter side is 2 (2N ϩ 1)/4 meters, with both lengths rounded off to the nearest millimeter Of a sheet of paper, the dimensions 8.5 inches by 11 inches (21 6 millimeters by 27 9 millimeters) ... gear, from the coincidence of the pitch points of a pair of teeth until the last point of contact of the teeth { aŋиgəl əv re ses } ¯ angle of repose [ENG] See angle...

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... or boarding of the soffits Also known as barge rafter { barj kəpиəl } ¨ barge course [BUILD] The coping of a wall, formed by a course of bricks set on edge In a tiled roof, the part of the tiling ... anemometer, consisting of an array of cups about a vertical axis of rotation, the free rotation of which is restricted by a spring arrangement; by adjustment of the force consta...

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... direction of the deflection of the point of application of an external force on an elastic body is equal to the partial derivative of the work of deformation with respect to the component of the ... [THERMO] A unit of heat energy, equal to 0.01 of the quantity of heat needed to raise pound of air-free water from to 100ЊC at a constant pressure of standard atmosphere; e...

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... the natural degrees of freedom of a system; the number of constraints is the difference between the number of natural degrees of freedom and the number of actual degrees of freedom { kən strant ... frequency; cutoff { kət of freиkwənиse } ˙ ¯ ¯ cutoff limiting [ELECTR] Limiting the maximum output voltage of a vacuum tube circuit by driving the grid beyond cutoff { kət of l...

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... the amount of liquid material on the rollers of a spreader Also known as doctor bar; doctor knife; doctor roll { dakиtər blad } ¨ ¯ doctor knife See doctor blade { dakиtər nıf } ¨ ¯ doctor roll ... Any of several types of industrial hand trucks consisting of a low platform or specially shaped carrier mounted on rollers or combinations of fixed and swivel casters; used to docking b...

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... degree of the failure of a powder { falиyər prapиərdиez } ¨ ¯ ¯ failure rate [ENG] The probability of failure per unit of time of items in operation; sometimes estimated as a ratio of the number of ... measure of the resistance of a beam of specified material and cross section to bending, equal to the product of Young’s modulus for the material and the square of the ra...

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... external angle formed by the junction of two sloping roofs or the sides of a roof A rafter that is positioned at the junction of two sloping roofs or the sides of a roof [CIV ENG] See hip joint { hip ... and using knowledge of materials of the crust of the earth { ¦jeиo¦tekиniks } ¯ ¯ geotechnology [ENG] Application of the methods of engineering and science to exploitation...

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... as a unit of current, and is equal to approximately 0 .99 9850 ampere { ¦inиtər¦nashи ənиəl am pir } international ohm [ELEC] A unit of resistance, equal to that of a column of mercury of uniform ... emissivity of a blackbody Also known as Kirchhoff’s principle { kərk hofs lo } ˙ ¯ Kirchhoff’s principle See Kirchhoff’s law { kərk hofs prinиsəиpəl } ¯ Kirchhoff’s second law See Kir...

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... measure of reliability of a piece of equipment, giving the average time before the first failure { men tım tə ¯ ¯ falиyər } ¯ mean time to repair [ENG] A measure of reliability of a piece of repairable ... sorting operation in which mixtures of particles of mixed sizes, and often of different specific gravities, are separated into fractions by the action of a stream of f...

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... capacity of mole of a solid substance is approximately equal to the sum over the elements forming the substance of the heat capacity of a gram atom of the element times the number of atoms of the ... plane of a cutting tool { noz radиeиəs } ¯ ¯ ¯ [ENG] A short timber located under the end of the main sill of a standard rig front of a well { noz sil } ¯ nosing [BUILD] Pro...

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... process engineering [ENG] A service function of production engineering that involves selection of the processes to be used, determination of the sequence of all operations, and requisition of special ... or base member, such as of a partition or other kind of frame The top horizontal member of a row of studs used in a frame wall [DES ENG] A rolled, flat piece of metal...

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... [MECH] The square root of the ratio of the moment of inertia of a body about a given axis to its mass { radиeиəs əv ¯ ¯ ji raиshən } ¯ radius of protection [ENG] The radius of the circle within ... proportional to the integral of the angular rate of the base about the input axis { rat ¦intи ¯ ə gradиiŋ jıиrə skop } ¯ ¯ ¯ rate of change of acceleration [MECH] Time rate of...

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