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2. Glow plug - Wikipedia

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   Glow plugs are used to help overcome this issue by introducing additional heat energy into the combustion chambers. [1] A glowplug resembles a short metal pencil. The heating element is fitted into its tip. Glowplug filaments must be made of certain materials, such as platinum and iridium, that resist oxidation and withstand high temperature ...

3. List of companies in Houston - Wikipedia

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   Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings

4. Glow plug (model engine) - Wikipedia

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   A glow plug engine, or glow engine, is a type of small internal combustion engine [1] typically used in model aircraft, model cars and similar applications. The ignition is accomplished by a combination of heating from compression, heating from a glow plug and the catalytic effect of the platinum within the glow plug on the methanol within the ...

5. Parkway Villages, Houston - Wikipedia

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   Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Valbona Health Center (formerly People's Health Center) in Greater Sharpstown for ZIP code 77077. The nearest public hospital is Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. [7]

6. It’s tee time for the first glow-in-the-dark mini ... - AOL

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   Let’s Glow is an 18-hole, indoor, tropical safari-themed destination at 731 N. Columbia Center Blvd. near the newly opened Natural Grocers. It is open 2-9 p.m. on Wednesday, its first day.

7. Rhino Passive Infrared Defeat System - Wikipedia

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   The glow plug acted as a heat decoy, which triggered any nearby IED’s infrared sensor prematurely and fired the copper explosively formed penetrator (EFP) slug at the Rhino instead of the vehicle behind it. The countermeasure proved to be a success at the time as U.S. forces found that the Rhino could not only take the impact of an EFP but ...

8. Corona discharge - Wikipedia

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   It is often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages, and emits light by the same mechanism as a gas discharge lamp, chemiluminescence. Corona discharges can also happen in weather, such as thunderstorms, where objects like ship masts or airplane wings have a charge significantly different ...

9. Alief, Houston - Wikipedia

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   Alief (/ ˈ eɪ l iː f / AY-leef) is a working-class suburb in Southwest Harris County, Texas, United States.Most of Alief is within the city limits of Houston, while a portion of the community is in unincorporated Harris County.