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  2. Bulk cargo - Wikipedia

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    Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate (as a mass of relatively small solids) form, such as petroleum/crude oil, grain, coal, or gravel. This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship's hold , railroad car / railway wagon , or tanker truck / trailer / semi ...

  3. Fire bucket - Wikipedia

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    Fire buckets hung on the wall of a railway station in Holt, England. A fire bucket is a bucket filled with water or sand which is used to prevent or extinguish fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word fire stencilled on them. Often they have a convex, protruding bottom.

  4. Lime mortar - Wikipedia

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    Gather your ingredients, sand, lime, and water; Measure out your ratio of sand to lime, for example 3 buckets of sand, and 1 bucket of lime for a 3:1 ratio. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly so all the sand is coated with lime, and there are neither chunks of sand or lime visible.

  5. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    An intermediate bulk container (IBC, IBC Tote, IBC Tank) is a multi-use container employed for the general transport, storage, and handling of bulk fluids and materials. IBC tanks are compatible with, and resistant to, an extensive list of chemicals, acids, caustics, as well as inert materials and food grade consumables.

  6. List of cargo types - Wikipedia

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    It refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate form, as a mass of relatively small solids, such as petroleum/crude oil, grain, coal, or gravel. This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship's hold , railroad car / railway wagon , or tanker truck / trailer / semi-trailer body.

  7. Container - Wikipedia

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    Intermediate bulk containers, commonly used in industrial settings for the handling, transport, and storage of liquids, semi-solids, pastes, or solids. A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging , and transportation , including shipping . [ 1 ]

  8. Bulk material handling - Wikipedia

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    Bulk materials are those dry materials which are powdery, granular or lumpy in nature, and are stored in heaps. [1] Examples of bulk materials are minerals, ores, coal, cereals, woodchips, sand, gravel, clay, cement, ash, salt, chemicals, grain, sugar, flour and stone in loose bulk form.

  9. Pail (container) - Wikipedia

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    Three gallon plastic pail of paint with screw closure Steel pail of concentrated pesticide Open-head plastic pails being reused to carry other items. In technical usage in the shipping industry, a pail is a type of cylindrical shipping container with a capacity of about 3 to 50 litres (1 to 13 US gal).