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  2. Nominal Pipe Size - Wikipedia

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    Nominal Pipe Size (NPS) is a North American set of standard sizes for pipes used for high or low pressures and temperatures. [1] " Nominal" refers to pipe in non-specific terms and identifies the diameter of the hole with a non-dimensional number (for example – 2-inch nominal steel pipe" consists of many varieties of steel pipe with the only criterion being a 2.375-inch (60.3 mm) outside ...

  3. Figure-eight knot (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The figure-eight knot has played an important role historically (and continues to do so) in the theory of 3-manifolds.Sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, William Thurston showed that the figure-eight was hyperbolic, by decomposing its complement into two ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra.

  4. Invertible knot - Wikipedia

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    The simplest example of a non-invertible knot is the knot 8 17 (Alexander-Briggs notation) or .2.2 (Conway notation). The pretzel knot 7, 5, 3 is non-invertible, as are all pretzel knots of the form (2 p + 1), (2 q + 1), (2 r + 1), where p , q , and r are distinct integers, which is the infinite family proven to be non-invertible by Trotter.

  5. Iron pipe size - Wikipedia

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    During the IPS period, pipes were cast in halves and welded together, and pipe sizes referred to the inside diameters. [1] The inside diameters under IPS were roughly the same as the more modern Ductile Iron Pipe Standard (DIPS) and Nominal Pipe Size (NPS) Standards, and some of the wall thicknesses were also retained with a different ...

  6. National pipe thread - Wikipedia

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    National Pipe Taper Fuel (NPTF, also called Dryseal American National Standard Taper Pipe Thread, defined by ASME B1.20.3) is designed to provide a more leak-free seal without the use of PTFE tape (often referred to by the popular brand name "Teflon") or another sealant compound. NPTF threads have the same basic shape but with crest and root ...

  7. Cold weather forecasts for January spark a 24% surge in ...

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    The price of February futures for natural gas jumped to a high of $4.20 per million British thermal units in Monday's trading session. The gain continues recent trends, with the price of natural ...

  8. American Airlines flight diverts to JFK after apparent bird ...

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    The aircraft, powered by its second engine, landed safely and without incident shortly after 8 p.m., the Port Authority New York and New Jersey said. There were no reported injuries.

  9. Woman Gets the Most Bittersweet Surprise When She Tries the ...

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    But then, to her surprise, the video went viral, amassing more than 4.5 million views and 5,000 comments. It was super late at night, and Anna Costley couldn’t sleep.