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  • 1Spill — Spill, starke Winde auf dem Schiff oder Kai zum Einwinden der Ankerketten (Ankerwinde, Anker S.) oder anderer Taue und Ketten, meist durch Dampf getrieben (Dampf S.), neuerdings auch durch Elektrizität; Brat S. oder Pump S. hat horizontale, Gang… …

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  • 2pump — verb 1) I pumped air out of the tube Syn: force, drive, push; suck, draw, tap, siphon, withdraw, expel, extract, bleed, drain 2) she pumped up the tire Syn …

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  • 3pump — verb 1) they pumped air down the tube Syn: force, drive, push, inject, suck, draw 2) she pumped up the tyre Syn: inflate, blow up, fill up, swell, enlarge …

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  • 4Montara oil spill — Satellite image of the oil slick in the Timor Sea, September 2009. Location Timor Sea, off the northern coast of Western Australia …

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  • 5List of pipeline accidents — The following is a list of pipeline accidents: This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. Contents 1 Bel …

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  • 6environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …

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  • 7Components of jet engines — Diagram of a typical gas turbine jet engine. Air is compressed by the fan blades as it enters the engine, and it is mixed and burned with fuel in the combustion section. The hot exhaust gases provide forward thrust and turn the turbines which… …

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  • 8Oil tanker — Supertanker redirects here. For the aerial firefighting aircraft, see Evergreen 747 Supertanker. The commercial oil tanker AbQaiq, in ballast Class overview Name …

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  • 9Nahal Zin fuel leak — The Nahal Zin fuel leak (Hebrew: אסון נחל צין‎) was a severe ecological disaster caused in June 2011 when a backhoe loader struck and ruptured an underground fuel pipeline in southern Israel. 1.5 million liters of jet fuel leaked into the… …

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  • 10environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction       infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …

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