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  2. 2007 New York City steam explosion - Wikipedia

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    On December 27, 2007, in response to the report by the utility, New York City Councilman Eric Gioia criticized the company for identifying the city as potentially responsible for the blast in an October court filing laying the groundwork for a possible future lawsuit. That notice of claim said city sewers, pipes and drains could have leaked ...

  3. Operation Crossroads - Wikipedia

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    First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; Nuclear Test Film – Project Crossroads is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive (42m32s) Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month) (ca. 1955) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet ...

  4. Fracking - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic fracturing [a] is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum ...

  5. CCleaner - Wikipedia

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    In January 2014 it had been the most popular software on FileHippo for more than a year, and had a 5-star editor's rating on download.zone and Softpedia. [23] CCleaner has been reviewed by Chip.de , [ 24 ] TechRadar , [ 25 ] PC Magazine [ 26 ] and TechRepublic .

  6. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [5] [6] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [7]

  7. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    Most modern smartphones have the ability for users to download or purchase additional applications from a centralized app store. They often have support for cloud storage and cloud synchronization, and virtual assistants. Since the early 2010s, improved hardware and faster wireless communication have bolstered the growth of the smartphone industry.

  8. Concrete - Wikipedia

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    Life cycle assessment (LCA) of low-carbon concrete was investigated according to the ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) and fly ash (FA) replacement ratios. Global warming potential (GWP) of GGBS decreased by 1.1 kg CO 2 eq/m 3 , while FA decreased by 17.3 kg CO 2 eq/m 3 when the mineral admixture replacement ratio was increased by 10%.

  9. Shaped charge - Wikipedia

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    The Munroe or Neumann effect is the focusing of blast energy by a hollow or void cut on a surface of an explosive. The earliest mention of hollow charges were mentioned in 1792. Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) was a German mining engineer at that time; in a mining journal, he advocated a conical space at the forward end of a blasting ...