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  2. Pulmonary aspiration - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary aspiration is the entry of solid or liquid material such as pharyngeal secretions, food, drink, or stomach contents from the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract, into the trachea and lungs. [1] When pulmonary aspiration occurs during eating and drinking, the aspirated material is often colloquially referred to as "going down the ...

  3. Water hammer - Wikipedia

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    Water flowing through a pipe has momentum. If the moving water is suddenly stopped, such as by closing a valve downstream of the flowing water, the pressure can rise suddenly with a resulting shock wave. In domestic plumbing this shock wave is experienced as a loud banging resembling a hammering noise. Water hammer can cause pipelines to break ...

  4. Mysterious blood-like liquid oozes from drainage pipe in ...

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    It was bright red, glassy and oozing from a drain pipe, photos show. The discovery was made around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 21, on Hamrick Street just outside Gaffney, Cherokee County Emergency ...

  5. Meniscus (liquid) - Wikipedia

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    When a tube of a narrow bore, often called a capillary tube, is dipped into a liquid and the liquid wets the tube (with zero contact angle), the liquid surface inside the tube forms a concave meniscus, which is a virtually spherical surface having the same radius, r, as the inside of the tube. The tube experiences a downward force of magnitude ...

  6. Path shut after water pipe 'goes pop' on bridge - AOL

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  7. Epiglottis - Wikipedia

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    If food or liquid enters the airway due to the epiglottis failing to close properly, throat-clearing or a cough reflex may occur to protect the respiratory system and expel material from the airway. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] Where there is impairment in laryngeal vestibule sensation, silent aspiration (entry of material to the airway that does not result in ...

  8. Famous scenic waterfall in China goes viral after video ... - AOL

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    A video posted on Chinese social media this week appears to show a pipe supplying water to the 314-meter-tall (1,030-foot) falls – suggesting their source may not be as all-natural as visitors ...

  9. Boiler blowdown - Wikipedia

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    It is most effective to remove water with the highest level of impurities; and such water is found where steam separates in the steam drum at the top of the boiler. There are two types of surface blowdown fittings. The simpler is a pipe entering the steam drum at the normal water level.