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  2. Coin wrapper - Wikipedia

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    The proportional dimensions of pre-decimal coins continued past Decimal Day, meaning that the 2p and 10p coins weighed twice the 1p and 5p respectively; this correlation was continued when the 5p (1990) and 10p (1992) coins were reduced in size, leading to the situation that full bags of 1p and 2p coins, and 5p and 10p coins, have the same ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    Typical size of a fog, mist, or cloud water droplet 10 μm Width of transistors in the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor: 12 μm Width of acrylic fiber: 17–181 μm Width range of human hair [25] 10 −4: 100 μm: 340 μm Size of a pixel on a 17-inch monitor with a resolution of 1024×768 560 μm

  4. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    In this underwater lift, the chamber was 80 ft (24.4 m) long and 60 ft (18.3 m) deep and contained a completely enclosed wooden box big enough to take a barge. This box moved up and down in the 60 ft (18.3 m) deep pool of water. Apart from inevitable leakage, the water never left the chamber, and using the lock wasted no water. Instead, the ...

  5. Lake Berryessa - Wikipedia

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    The wettest year was 1983 with 56.94 inches (1,446 mm) and the driest year was 1976 with 7.78 inches (198 mm). The most precipitation in one month was 21.33 inches (542 mm) in January 1995. The most precipitation in 24 hours was 5.29 inches (134 mm) on December 31, 2005. Snowfall is very rare, but 0.4 inches (10 mm) fell in January 1974. [6]

  6. Waterboarding - Wikipedia

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    The stream of water is about one inch in diameter, and falls from a hight of seven or eight feet. The head of the patient is retained in its place by means of a board clasping the neck; the effect of which is, that the water, striking upon the board, rebounds into the mouth and nostrils of the victim, almost producing strangulation.

  7. Charleston, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The downtown Charleston waterfront on the Battery. Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [9] and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

  8. Sea level rise - Wikipedia

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    However, mountain ice caps not in contact with water are less vulnerable than the majority of the ice sheet, which is located below the sea level. [120] Its collapse would cause ~3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) of sea level rise. [121] This disappearance would take an estimated 2000 years.

  9. Fracking - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic fracturing [a] is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum ...