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  2. USS Saratoga (CV-3) - Wikipedia

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    USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

  3. Contractile vacuole - Wikipedia

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    The contractile vacuole is a specialized type of vacuole that regulates the quantity of water inside a cell.In freshwater environments, the concentration of solutes is hypotonic, lower outside than inside the cell.

  4. File:USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway, circa in 1942 (80-G-K-459 ...

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    The Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga, Public domain photo from history.navy.mil {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} en:Image:Uss saratoga cv3.jpg File usage The following 12 pages use this file:

  5. List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]

  6. Zenker's diverticulum - Wikipedia

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    While traction and pulsion mechanisms have long been deemed the main factors promoting development of a Zenker's diverticulum, current consensus considers occlusive mechanisms to be most important: uncoordinated swallowing, impaired relaxation and spasm of the cricopharyngeus muscle lead to an increase in pressure within the distal pharynx, so ...

  7. L3/33 - Wikipedia

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    The Carro Veloce 33 (CV 33) or L3/33 was a tankette originally built in 1933 and used by the Italian Army before and during World War II.It was based on the imported British Carden Loyd tankette (license-built by Italy as the CV 29).

  8. Flame tank - Wikipedia

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    The first combat-ready flamethrower tanks appeared in the early 1930s: KhT-27, KhT-26 and a number of others - in the USSR, CV3 LF - in Italy. Before the start of World War II b more than 1,300 flamethrower tanks of various types were produced by Soviet industry. [8] By the mid-1930s, the first combat use of flamethrower tanks took place.

  9. Cyclic voltammetry - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. Typical cyclic voltammogram where j pc and j pa show the peak cathodic and anodic current densities respectively for a reversible reaction with a 5 mM Fe redox couple reacting with a graphite electrode in 1M potassium nitrate solution.