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2. Landfill liner - Wikipedia

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   A landfill liner, or composite liner, is intended to be a low permeable barrier, which is laid down under engineered landfill sites. Until it deteriorates, the liner retards migration of leachate , and its toxic constituents, into underlying aquifers or nearby rivers from causing potentially irreversible contamination of the local waterway and ...

3. Odor - Wikipedia

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   "Smell", from Allegory of the Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Museo del Prado. An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a smell or a scent caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive via their olfactory system.

4. SS Pasteur (1938) - Wikipedia

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   SS Pasteur was a steam turbine ocean liner built for Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. She later sailed as Bremen for Norddeutscher Lloyd . In the course of her career, she sailed for 41 years under four names and six countries' flags.

5. Mercury (planet) - Wikipedia

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   Mercury has an orbital speed of 47.4 km/s (29.5 mi/s), whereas Earth's orbital speed is 29.8 km/s (18.5 mi/s). [112] Therefore, the spacecraft must make a larger change in velocity ( delta-v ) to get to Mercury and then enter orbit, [ 187 ] as compared to the delta-v required for, say, Mars planetary missions .

6. Titanic - Wikipedia

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   Around 4 am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic ' s earlier distress calls. [174] When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%. [175] 706 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic 's original destination, while 1,517 people died. [108]

7. Olympic-class ocean liner - Wikipedia

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   The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century, named Olympic (1911), Titanic (1912) and Britannic (1915). All three were designated to be the largest as well as most luxurious liners of the era, devised to provide White Star an ...