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A pernette from an archaeological find. Placed into a kiln upside down with respect to the drawing. A pernette or stilt is a prop to support pottery in a kiln so that pottery does not touch each other or kiln's floor. [13] In archaeology, they may be upside-down fired clay tripods, leaving characteristic marks at the bottoms of the pottery ...
The cowl is constructed so that when looking down vertically on a kiln, it covers the whole of the opening. It also covers some ⅔ to ¾ of the circumference of the kiln opening, the remaining section being open to allow air to vent from the kiln. [3] [4] The size of cowls is expressed as height from top plate to base by width of kiln opening ...
Lower wall plates, base plate, floor plate, or bottom plate [4] — a second lower wall plate to which the wall studs are through nailed and which is the bottom of the wall section when assembled as a rectangular assembly. On an upper story, the lower wall plate is nailed to the platform of the supporting floor. The supporting platform is being ...
IPS (in-plane switching) is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). In IPS, a layer of liquid crystals is sandwiched between two glass surfaces. The liquid crystal molecules are aligned parallel to those surfaces in predetermined directions (in-plane). The molecules are reoriented by an applied electric field, while remaining ...
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The Dallara IPS is an open-wheel formula racing car chassis, designed, developed and built by Italian manufacturer Dallara, for the one-make Indy Lights spec-series, a feeder-series for the IndyCar Series, between 2002 and 2014.
The NBA and commissioner Adam Silver were eager to make changes to the All-Star Game after last year's contest wasn't very competitive and finished with a final score of 211-186.
It is a wood-burning perpetual kiln, or draw-down kiln, which means it must be continuously fired. Between the kiln's outer limestone rock wall and the interior fire brick vertical column is a layer of dirt for insulation. [3] The 16-foot (4.9 m) tall stone base is topped with a wooden structure, which was rebuilt from the original in 1992.