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111Firefighting — Distinguish from a firefight, which means a battle with firearms. Firefighting is the act of extinguishing destructive fires. A firefighter fights these fires to prevent destruction of life, property and the environment. Firefighting is a highly… …
112Clothes line — For other uses, see Clothesline (disambiguation). Clothes lines in Tripoli, in Northern Lebanon. A clothes line or washing line is any type of rope, cord, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two sticks), outside or indoors,… …
113Higher heating value — The higher heating value (HHV;also known as the gross calorific value or gross energy) of a fuel is defined as the amount of heat released by a specified quantity (initially at 25 °C) once it is combusted and the products have returned to a… …
114Lower heating value — The lower heating value (also known as net calorific value , net CV , or LHV ) of a fuel is defined as the amount of heat released by combusting a specified quantity (initially at 25 °C or another reference state) and returning the temperature of …
115Rope trick effect — Rope trick is the term given by physicist John Malik to the curious lines and spikes which emanate from the fireball of certain nuclear explosions just after detonation.DescriptionThe photograph at the right specifically shows two unusual… …
116Block heater — A block heater is an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather. They are connected to normal AC power overnight or before driving, via regular power plugs that are fed through a vehicle s grille. This allows… …
117Free neutron — Elementbox name=neutron number=0 symbol=n0 left= right=hydrogen above= below=helium series=noble gas group=18 period=0 block= appearance=colourless atomic mass= [1] electron configuration=0s0 electrons per shell=0 phase=gas density gplstp=… …
118Critical point (thermodynamics) — Carbon dioxide creating a fog when cooling from supercritical to critical temperature In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions… …
119Hypervelocity — The term hypervelocity usually refers to a very high velocity, typically over 3,000 meters per second (6,700 mph, 11,000 km/h, 10,000 ft/s, or Mach 8.8)Approximate values.] . In particular, it refers to velocities sufficiently high that the… …
120Chemical elements data references — Recommended values for many properties of the elements, together with various references, are collected on these data pages. Any changes to the infobox data should be checked against these pages, and/or the available references should be expanded …
