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  2. Liebig's law of the minimum - Wikipedia

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    Liebig's barrel. Dobenecks used the image of a barrel — often called "Liebig's barrel" — to explain Liebig's law. [7] Just as the maximum practical capacity of a barrel with staves of unequal length is limited by the length of the shortest stave.

  3. Stave (wood) - Wikipedia

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    Wooden barrels made of multiple staves. A wood stave pipeline for a hydropower application. Wood stave pipeline part of the Yakima Project. A stave is a narrow length of wood with a slightly bevelled edge to form the sides of barrels, tanks, tubs, vats and pipelines, originally handmade by coopers. [1]

  4. Barrel (unit) - Wikipedia

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    US dry barrel: 7,056 cubic inches (115.6 litres; 3.3 US bushels) . Defined as length of stave 28 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (72 cm), diameter of head 17 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (43 cm), distance between heads 26 in (66 cm), circumference of bulge 64 in (160 cm) outside measurement; representing as nearly as possible 7,056 cubic inches; and the thickness of staves not greater than 4 ⁄ 10 in (10 mm) [2] (diameter ≈ ...

  5. Barrel - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oak barrels made by Chilean cooperage Tonelería Nacional Mackmyra barrels at Hackeberga Castle Modern stainless steel casks and kegs outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England Wooden wine barrel at an exhibition in Croatia. A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is ...

  6. Trunk (luggage) - Wikipedia

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    Two examples of dome-top trunks: one is a vertical slat trunk, the other is a barrel-stave trunk. A dome-top trunk has a high, curved top that can rise up to heights of 25–30 in (64–76 cm). A variety of construction methods—including cuffing, molded ply, barrel construction, and so forth—were used to form the inner boxes.

  7. Oak (wine) - Wikipedia

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    Oak wine barrels. Oak is used in winemaking to vary the color, flavor, tannin profile and texture of wine. It can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves added to wine fermented in a vessel like stainless steel.

  8. Cooper (profession) - Wikipedia

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    Cooper readies or rounds off the end of a barrel using a cooper's hand adze Assembly of a barrel, called mise en rose' in French. A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.

  9. Miller twist rule - Wikipedia

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    Miller twist rule is a mathematical formula derived by American physical chemist and historian of science Donald G. Miller (1927-2012) to determine the rate of twist to apply to a given bullet to provide optimum stability using a rifled barrel. [1]