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  2. Gasket - Wikipedia

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    Copper flange gaskets used for ultra-high vacuum systems. A flange gasket is a type of gasket made to fit between two sections of pipe that are flared to provide higher surface area. Flange gaskets come in a variety of sizes and are categorized by their inside diameter and their outside diameter. There are many standards in gasket for flanges ...

  3. Flange - Wikipedia

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    A flange is a protruded ridge, lip or rim, either external or internal, that serves to increase strength (as the flange of a steel beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam); for easy attachment/transfer of contact force with another object (as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera); or for stabilizing and guiding the movements of a machine or its ...

  4. Gasket (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A gasket (correct terminology is a "joint" made from "jointing material") is a mechanical seal that fills the space between two mating surfaces. Gasket may also refer to: Flange gasket, a type of gasket made to fit between two sections of pipe; Head gasket, a gasket used in internal combustion engines

  5. Gold sink - Wikipedia

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    Gold sink is an economic process by which a video game's ingame currency ('gold'), or any item that can be valued against it, is removed. This process is comparable to financial repression in real economies.

  6. Seal (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    A type of washer with integral gasket, widely used to provide a seal at the entry point of a screw or bolt [2] [3] Bridgman seal, a piston sealing mechanism that creates a high pressure reservoir from a lower pressure source; Split seals [4] are innovative sealing solutions designed to enhance efficiency and convenience in various mechanical ...

  7. Flange (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A flange is a ridge, a rib or rim. Flange may also refer to: Flanging, an audio effect; Flanging, part of the process of blocking a felt hat; Flange gasket, a type of gasket made to fit between two sections of pipe that are flared to provide higher surface area; Marman clamp, a flange connection used in aerospace plumbing

  8. Flashing (weatherproofing) - Wikipedia

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    In earlier days, birch bark was occasionally used as a flashing material. [7] Most flashing materials today are metal, plastic, rubber, or impregnated paper. [8]Metal flashing materials include lead, aluminium, copper, [1] stainless steel, zinc alloy, other architectural metals or a metal with a coating such as galvanized steel, lead-coated copper, anodized aluminium, terne-coated copper ...

  9. Plumbing fixture - Wikipedia

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    In some occasional cases, a sink may have both a potable (drinkable) and a non-potable water supply. Lavatories and water closets normally connect to the water supply by means of a supply , which is a tube, usually of nominal 3/8 in ( United States ) or 10 or 12 mm diameter ( Europe and Middle East ), which connects the water supply to the ...