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  2. Carbide lamp - Wikipedia

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    A mining or caving lamp has calcium carbide placed in a lower chamber, the generator. The upper reservoir is then filled with water. A threaded valve or other mechanism is used to control the rate at which the water is allowed to drip into the chamber containing the calcium carbide.

  3. Oxyhydrogen - Wikipedia

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    Nineteenth-century electrolytic cell for producing oxyhydrogen. Oxyhydrogen is a mixture of hydrogen (H 2) and oxygen (O 2) gases.This gaseous mixture is used for torches to process refractory materials and was the first [1] gaseous mixture used for welding.

  4. Fire - Wikipedia

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    Making fire to generate heat and light made it possible for people to cook food, simultaneously increasing the variety and availability of nutrients and reducing disease by killing pathogenic microorganisms in the food. [16] The heat produced would also help people stay warm in cold weather, enabling them to live in cooler climates.

  5. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]

  6. Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle - Wikipedia

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    These hydrogen engines burn fuel in the same manner that gasoline engines do. The theoretical maximum power output from a hydrogen engine depends on the air/fuel ratio and fuel injection method used. The stoichiometric air/fuel ratio for hydrogen is 34:1. At this air/fuel ratio, hydrogen will displace 29% of the combustion chamber leaving only ...

  7. AOL Mail for Verizon Customers - AOL Help

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    AOL Mail welcomes Verizon customers to our safe and delightful email experience!

  8. Wood gas - Wikipedia

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    Flame from a wood gas generator. Wood gas is a fuel gas that can be used for furnaces, stoves, and vehicles. During the production process, biomass or related carbon-containing materials are gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to produce a combustible mixture.

  9. Dissociated press - Wikipedia

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    Dissociated press is a parody generator (a computer program that generates nonsensical text). The generated text is based on another text using the Markov chain technique. The name is a play on "Associated Press" and the psychological term dissociation (although word salad is more typical of conditions like aphasia and schizophrenia – which is, however, frequently confused with dissociative ...