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  • 11Gas venenoso en la Primera Guerra Mundial — Un ataque con gas venenoso usando cilindros de gas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. El uso de gas venenoso en la Primera Guerra Mundial …

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  • 12lime light — Calcium Cal ci*um (k[a^]l s[i^]*[u^]m), n. [NL., from L. calx, calcis, lime; cf F. calcium. See {Calx}.] (Chem.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is …

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  • 13lime — 1. CaO; an alkaline earth oxide occurring in grayish white masses (quicklime); on exposure to the atmosphere it becomes converted into calcium hydrate and calcium carbonate (air slaked l.); direct addition of …

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  • 14Flue gas desulfurization — (FGD) is the technology used for removing sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the exhaust flue gases in power plants that burn coal or oil to produce steam for the steam turbines that drive their electricity generators. Sulfur dioxide is responsible for… …

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  • 15Soda lime — is a mixture of chemicals, used in granular form in closed breathing environments, such as general anaesthesia, submarines, rebreathers and recompression chambers, to remove carbon dioxide from breathing gases to prevent CO2 retention and carbon… …

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  • 16Hydraulic lime — Hydraulic Hy*drau lic, a. [F. hydraulique, L. hydraulicus, fr. Gr. ?, ?, a water organ; y dwr water + ? flute, pipe. See {Hydra}.] Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock,… …

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  • 17Fresh gas flow — refers to the mixture of medical gases and volatile anaesthetic agents which is produced by an anaesthetic machine. The flow rate and composition of the fresh gas flow is determined by the anaesthetist.Typically the fresh gas flow emerges from… …

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  • 18Breathing gas — is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. Other artificial gases, either pure gases or mixtures of gases, are used in breathing equipment and enclosed… …

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  • 19History of manufactured gas — The history of manufactured gas, important for lighting, heating, and cooking purposes throughout most of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, began with the development of analytical and pneumatic chemistry in the… …

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  • 20soda lime — soda lime, adj. a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide. [1860 65] * * * ▪ chemistry       white or grayish white granular mixture of calcium hydroxide with sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. Soda lime absorbs carbon dioxide and …

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