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  2. Extreme cold: Why your house is popping and how to prevent ...

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    Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2019. We are republishing it as part of our winter coverage. Bitter-cold temperatures can make your home do strange things in the winter months.

  3. How to keep your pipes from freezing during cold temperatures ...

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    Close your garage doors and crawl space openings before cold weather arrives. This will stop the chilly winds from coming into your home and freezing pipes. This will stop the chilly winds from ...

  4. Cold cathode - Wikipedia

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    A common cold-cathode application is in neon signs and other locations where the ambient temperature is likely to drop well below freezing, The Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster (Big Ben) uses cold-cathode lighting behind the clock faces where continual striking and failure to strike in cold weather would be undesirable. Large cold-cathode ...

  5. Why sudden loud booms sometimes occur when it's very cold outside

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    When the temperature drops rapidly, within approximately 12 to 48 hours, water that has collected below the ground's surface freezes solid and expands quickly. This change cracks the ground ...

  6. Dimmer - Wikipedia

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    A common dual dimmer module used in stage lighting A dimmer. A dimmer is a device connected to a light fixture and used to lower the brightness of the light.By changing the voltage waveform applied to the lamp, it is possible to lower the intensity of the light output.

  7. Brownout (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    A linear DC regulated supply will maintain the output voltage unless the brownout is severe and the input voltage drops below the drop out voltage for the regulator, at which point the output voltage will fall and high levels of ripple from the rectifier/reservoir capacitor will appear on the output.

  8. Freezing drizzle - Wikipedia

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    Freezing drizzle is extremely dangerous to aircraft in icing conditions, as the supercooled water droplets will freeze onto the airframe, degrading aircraft performance considerably. The loss and accident of American Eagle Flight 4184 on October 31, 1994, has been attributed to ice buildup due to freezing drizzle aloft.

  9. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    The pressure inside the lamp is around 0.3% of atmospheric pressure. [27] The partial pressure of the mercury vapor alone is about 0.8 Pa (8 millionths of atmospheric pressure), in a T12 40-watt lamp. [28] The inner surface of the lamp is coated with a fluorescent coating made of varying blends of metallic and rare-earth phosphor salts.