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  2. Cork (material) - Wikipedia

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    Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...

  3. Wine cork - Wikipedia

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    Like other cork products, natural wine corks are derived from the bark of cork oak trees. The bark is carefully peeled away and cut into sheets before processing. The oak trees are not cut down, and only about half of its bark is removed at any time. Cork oaks are first harvested at 25 years old, and take place every 9 years.

  4. Corkscrew - Wikipedia

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    A corkscrew is a tool for drawing corks from wine bottles and other household bottles that may be sealed with corks. In its traditional form, a corkscrew simply consists of a pointed metallic helix (often called the "worm") attached to a handle, which the user screws into the cork and pulls to extract it. Corkscrews are necessary because corks ...

  5. Quercus suber - Wikipedia

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    Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris.It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls.

  6. Female-owned bait and tackle shop open - AOL

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    Starting with a couple cork boards full of lures and lines and a couple of live wells in the back, Jeffers store now stocks up on one of the largest varieties of live, cut and artificial bait in ...

  7. Bottle opener - Wikipedia

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    The speed opener is a flat blade of steel approximately 4 cm wide and 16 cm long with a thumb hole at one end and a letterbox cut at the other to remove the crown seals from a bottle. They go under the names 'speed opener', 'popper', 'mamba', 'bar key', and most popularly 'bar blade'.

  8. Sabrage - Wikipedia

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    The inside pressure of a typical champagne bottle is around 620 kilopascals (90 psi). The diameter of the opening is 18 millimetres (0.71 in), so there is a force of about 160 newtons (36 lb f) trying to push the cork out of the bottle. At the opening of the bottle, there is a lip that creates a stress concentration. On the vertical seam of the ...

  9. Corks wine bar leaving Old Town. Owners plan to reopen in new ...

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    Owner Neil Ritter and his wife, Lorrie, who bought Corks in 2018, expect to reopen their business this fall in a new location and with a new name. UnCorked Wine, Bar, Food and Music is already in ...

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