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21Dry drowning — occurs when a person s lungs become unable to extract oxygen from the air, due primarily to: Muscular paralysis Puncture wound to the torso (affecting ability of diaphragm to create respiratory movement) Changes to the oxygen absorbing tissues… …
22Gas composition — Gas composition: any gas can be characterised by listing the pure substances it contains, and stating for each substance its proportion of the gas mixture s molecule count.To give a familiar example, air has a composition… …
23Dry sump — A dry sump is a lubricating motor oil management method for four stroke and large two stroke piston internal combustion engines that uses external pumps and a secondary external reservoir for oil, as compared to a conventional wet sump system.… …
24Dry measure — Dry measures are units of volume used to measure bulk commodities which are not gas or liquid. They are typically used in agriculture, agronomy, and commodity markets to measure grain, dried beans, and dried and fresh fruit (e.g. a peck of apples …
25Gas chromatography — A gas chromatograph with a headspace sampler Acronym GLC, GC Classification chromatography Analytes organic inorganic …
26Dry etching — refers to the removal of material, typically a masked pattern of semiconductor material, by exposing the material to a bombardment of ions (usually a plasma of reactive gases such as fluorocarbons, oxygen, chlorine, boron trichloride; sometimes… …
27gas-plant — gasˈ plant noun Dittany (see ↑burning bush under ↑burn1) • • • Main Entry: ↑gas * * * ˈgas ˌplant 1. A name given to the plant Dictamnus Fraxinella. In recent U.S. Dicts. [‘It is said that the atmosphere surrounding this plant is in hot dry… …
28Dry distillation — is the heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids). The method may or may not involve pyrolysis/thermolysis. The products are condensed and collected. This method usually requires higher… …
29Dry Tortugas — Dry′ Tor•tu′gas [[t]tɔrˈtu gəz[/t]] n. pl. geg a group of ten small islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico W of Key West: a part of Florida …
30dry hole — n. 1. an oil, water, or gas well that is not commercially profitable 2. an unsuccessful attempt to accomplish some objective in business, politics, etc …
