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  • 101India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …

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  • 102metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …

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  • 103silica mineral — Any of the forms of silicon dioxide (SiO2), including quartz, tridymite, cristobalite, coesite, stishovite, melanophlogite, lechatelierite, and chalcedony. Various kinds of silica minerals have been produced synthetically. * * * Introduction… …

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  • 104cereal processing — Introduction       treatment of cereals (cereal) and other plants to prepare their starch for human food, animal feed, or industrial use.        Nutrient composition of selected raw cereal grains (per 100 grams)Cereals, or grains, are members of… …

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  • 105Ometepe (archaeological site) — Ometepe Island is an important archaeological site, located in the Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua, administratively belongs to the Rivas Department. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning two …

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  • 106roughcast — Synonyms and related words: arrested, backward, bat out, block out, botch, broken, bumpy, bungle, carve, cast, cement, chisel, choppy, coarse, coarse grained, concrete, corrugated, create, cross grained, crude, cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by… …

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  • 107ballast — [ baləst] noun 1》 a heavy substance, such as gravel or lead, placed in the bilge of a ship to ensure its stability.     ↘a substance carried in an airship or on a hot air balloon to stabilize it. 2》 gravel or coarse stone used to form the bed of… …

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  • 108Running — Runner redirects here. For other uses, see Runner (disambiguation). This article is about the type of locomotion in humans. For running in horses, see Horse gait. For locomotion in dogs, see Gait (dog). For general locomotion, see Gait. For other …

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  • 109Underground mining (hard rock) — A three dimensional model of an underground mine with shaft access Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals, mainly those containing metals[1] such as ore containing gold …

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  • 110Overpressure — The term Overpressure (Δp) is applied to a pressure difference, relative to a normal or ambient pressure, in various circumstances: In engineering: the pressure difference over the wall thickness of a pressure vessel. It is the overpressure, not… …

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