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  2. Pinus mugo - Wikipedia

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    Pinus mugo, known as dwarf mountain pine, [4] mountain pine, scrub mountain pine, Swiss mountain pine, [5] bog pine, creeping pine, [6] or mugo pine, [7] is a species of conifer, native to high elevation habitats from southwestern to Central Europe and Southeast Europe.

  3. Pinus × rhaetica - Wikipedia

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    The Rhætic pine (Pinus × rhaetica) occurs occasionally throughout the regions where the two species overlap, from the northern side of the French Pyrenees through the Alps to the Carpathians in Slovakia, usually at the junction of the sub-alpine habitat of P. mugo and the montane forests of P. sylvestris.

  4. Dwarf mountain pine - Wikipedia

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    Dwarf mountain pine may refer to: Pinus mugo , also called creeping pine, a conifer native to high elevation habitats in Europe. Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii , also called Blue Mountains pine, is a critically endangered conifer species found only in New South Wales, Australia.

  5. PFD allowance - Wikipedia

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    The personal needs allowance is the time that is associated with workers’ daily personal needs which include going to the restroom, phone calls, going to the water fountain, and similar interruptions of a personal nature. However, it is categorized as 5%, but it also depends on the work environment, e.g. in terms of discomfort and temperature.

  6. Foliation (geology) - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the Latin folium, meaning "leaf", and refers to the sheet-like planar structure. [1] It is caused by shearing forces (pressures pushing different sections of the rock in different directions), or differential pressure (higher pressure from one direction than in others). The layers form parallel to the direction of the shear ...

  7. Shearing (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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    Shearing, also known as die cutting, [1] is a process that cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. Strictly speaking, if the cutting blades are straight the process is called shearing; if the cutting blades are curved then they are shearing-type operations. [2]

  8. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, free water may contain chemicals, altering the drying characteristics of wood. Bound or hygroscopic water Bound water is bound to the wood via hydrogen bonds. The attraction of wood for water arises from the presence of free hydroxyl (OH) groups in the cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin molecules in the cell wall. The hydroxyl ...

  9. Shearing shed - Wikipedia

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    In the shearing shed the woolly sheep will be penned on a slatted wooden or woven mesh floor above ground level. The sheep entry to the shed is via a wide ramp, with good footholds and preferably enclosed sides. After shearing the shearing shed may also provide warm shelter for newly shorn sheep if the weather is likely to be cold and/or wet.