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  2. Pressure (reggae musician) - Wikipedia

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    Delyno Brown (born August 5, 1981), [citation needed] [1] better known as Pressure or Pressure Busspipe, is a reggae musician from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. [2] He gained his early experience working on the Star Lion sound system in the late 1990s. [3] His debut album, The Pressure Is On, was produced by Dean Pond and released in 2005.

  3. Glossary of oilfield jargon - Wikipedia

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    Bell nipple: An enlarged pipe at the top of a casing string that serves as a funnel to guide drilling tools into the top of the well. Big bear: A big bear is a hitch (see hitch) that lasts a minimum of 50 straight days. Black Leg : Joints of pipe racked back in the derrick. Blowout: A sudden, uncontrolled release of underground pressure from ...

  4. HDPE pipe - Wikipedia

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    HDPE pipe is a type of flexible plastic pipe used to transfer fluids and gases. It is often employed for replacing aging concrete or steel main pipelines . Constructed from the thermoplastic HDPE (high-density polyethylene ), it has low permeability and robust molecular bonding, making it suitable for high-pressure pipelines .

  5. Tuyere - Wikipedia

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    A tuyere or tuyère (French pronunciation:; English: / t w iː ˈ j ɛər /) [1] [2] is a tube, nozzle or pipe allowing the blowing of air into a furnace or hearth. [3] Air or oxygen is injected into a hearth under pressure from bellows or a blowing engine or other devices.

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    2. (slang) A fictitious, yet highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase "the dreaded lurgy", sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms. Can also be used when informing someone one is unwell but one either does not know or does not want to say what the illness is.

  7. Plumbing - Wikipedia

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    Pipe and fittings are held in place with pipe hangers and strapping. Plumbing fixtures are exchangeable devices that use water and can be connected to a building's plumbing system. They are considered to be "fixtures", in that they are semi-permanent parts of buildings, not usually owned or maintained separately.

  8. Fire hose - Wikipedia

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    These arise from both pressure and flow. The magnitude of the axial tension in a fire hose is = + /, where p is pressure in the hose relative to the ambient pressure, A 1 is the hose cross-sectional area, ρ is the water density, and Q is the volumetric flow rate. [19]

  9. Piping - Wikipedia

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    Process piping and power piping are typically checked by pipe stress engineers to verify that the routing, nozzle loads, hangers, and supports are properly placed and selected such that allowable pipe stress is not exceeded under different loads such as sustained loads, operating loads, pressure testing loads, etc., as stipulated by the ASME B31, EN 13480, GOST 32388, RD 10-249 or any other ...