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  2. Homestake experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment took place in the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota.Davis placed a 380 cubic meter (100,000 gallon) tank of perchloroethylene, a common dry-cleaning fluid, 1,478 meters (4,850 feet) underground.

  3. Energy content of biofuel - Wikipedia

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    The second column shows specific energy, the energy content in megajoules per unit of mass in kilograms, useful in understanding the energy that can be extracted from the fuel. The third column in the table lists energy density, the energy content per liter of volume, which is useful for understanding the space needed for storing the fuel.

  4. Heat of combustion - Wikipedia

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    Such measurements often use a standard temperature of 25 °C (77 °F; 298 K) [citation needed]. This is the same as the thermodynamic heat of combustion since the enthalpy change for the reaction assumes a common temperature of the compounds before and after combustion, in which case the water produced by combustion is condensed to a liquid.

  5. Solar mass - Wikipedia

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    The solar mass (M ☉) is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately 2 × 10 30 kg (2 nonillion kilograms in US short scale). It is approximately equal to the mass of the Sun. It is often used to indicate the masses of other stars, as well as stellar clusters, nebulae, galaxies and black holes. More precisely, the mass of the ...

  6. Thrust-specific fuel consumption - Wikipedia

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    TSFC or SFC for thrust engines (e.g. turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, rockets, etc.) is the mass of fuel needed to provide the net thrust for a given period e.g. lb/(h·lbf) (pounds of fuel per hour-pound of thrust) or g/(s·kN) (grams of fuel per second-kilonewton). Mass of fuel is used, rather than volume (gallons or litres) for the fuel ...

  7. Energy density - Wikipedia

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    In terms of density, m = ρV, where ρ is the volumetric mass density, V is the volume occupied by the mass. This energy can be released by the processes of nuclear fission (~ 0.1%), nuclear fusion (~ 1%), or the annihilation of some or all of the matter in the volume V by matter– antimatter collisions (100%).

  8. Table of biodiesel crop yields - Wikipedia

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    lbs oil/acre US gal/acre Coldest hardiness zone. Warmest hardiness zone maize (corn) 147 172 129 18 3 11 cashew nut: 148 176 132 19 10 11 oats: 183 217 163 23 3 10 lupin (lupine) 195 232 175 25 4 7 kenaf: 230 273 205 29 6 10 calendula: 256 305 229 33 9 11 cotton: 273 325 244 35 8 11 hemp: 305 363 272 39 8 11 soybean: 375 446 335 48 2 11 coffee ...

  9. Planetary mass - Wikipedia

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    The choice of solar mass, M ☉, as the basic unit for planetary mass comes directly from the calculations used to determine planetary mass.In the most precise case, that of the Earth itself, the mass is known in terms of solar masses to twelve significant figures: the same mass, in terms of kilograms or other Earth-based units, is only known to five significant figures, which is less than a ...