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    black body
    GC: n CT: The ratio of the amount of radiation reflected from a surface compared to the amount of radiation that strikes it is called the surface albedo. The word “albedo” is derived from the Latin word for “white,” and indicates the “whiteness” of the surface doing the reflecting. A
    • fernando.contreras
    • 9 December 2014
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    black box
    CG: n CT: Aviation is set to become even safer thanks to real-time data transmission from black box flight recorders. In the 1960s, the black box—an Australian invention—became mandated on all commercial aircraft. It consists of two parts—the flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder—but one of the problems
    • fernando.contreras
    • 10 December 2020
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    black water
    GC: n CT: Black water is contaminated water from floodwaters and sewage waters. Black water can come from a flooded river or a backed up toilet or a backed up sewage line in your home. Black water can contain all types of harmful contaminants like bacteria, mold, and viruses that
    • fernando.contreras
    • 21 November 2017
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    blade
    GC: n CT: How big is a wind turbine? Industrial wind turbines are a lot bigger than ones you might see in a schoolyard or behind someone’s house. The widely used GE 1.5-megawatt model, for example, consists of 116-ft blades atop a 212-ft tower for a total height of 328
    • fernando.contreras
    • 4 November 2014
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    block validation
    GC: n CT: Different threads were posted in order to clear up this question, but there are some points that I would need to confirm: When you become a full-node (NOT miner, you just downloaded the full blockchain with a wallet or similar), are you automatically a validator? Meaning that every
    • fernando.contreras
    • 26 January 2021
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    blockchain
    GC: n CT: A blockchain is a distributed database that keeps a continuously-growing list of records protected from revision and tampering. Basically, the blockchain technology is a public ledger that records all transactions that have ever occurred. The official blockchain public site lets any person to get these transactions in
    • fernando.contreras
    • 15 May 2017
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    blue coal
    blue coal = energy from tides and waves blue gold = tidal power See ocean wave energy, tidal energy.
    • fernando.contreras
    • 17 December 2018
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    Bluetooth
    See Bluetooth wireless technology For more information about the origin of “Bluetooth”, see “erythroblastosis fetalis” in Humanterm: https://humantermuem.es/content/erythroblastosis-fetalis/?lang=en
    • fernando.contreras
    • 26 August 2014
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    Bluetooth wireless technology
    GC: n CT: In order for Bluetooth wireless technology enabled devices to communicate with one another, the Bluetooth wireless technology enabled devices must communicate in the same language also known as a profile. A Bluetooth wireless technology profile is a specification that defines the minimum requirements that the Bluetooth wireless
    • fernando.contreras
    • 22 June 2014
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    breadcrumbs
    CG: n CT: If users reach a deep page after traveling from the homepage through all the ancestor pages of that page, they will have a fairly clear understanding of where they are in the site’s information hierarchy. But when they skip some of these levels (for example, because they
    • fernando.contreras
    • 23 January 2024
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    bud pruning
    GC: n CT: Bud pruning (pinching) and leaf pruning both aim to develop small branches and leaves. These methods have the same effect as branch pruning. They are applicable when branch pruning may not apply, such as when the bonsai trees have completed shapes, or when you only want to
    • fernando.contreras
    • 9 December 2014
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    buffer tank
    GC: n CT: A buffer tank is typically used when there is a variable cooling requirement. In such applications the tank is used as storage to cover peak loads or in situations when a surge in demand exceeds the capacity of the cooling system. S: GRUNDFOS – http://www.grundfos.com/service-support/encyclopedia-search/buffer-tank.html (last access:
    • fernando.contreras
    • 5 October 2014
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    building automation
    GC: n CT: TCloud technologies and the use of layered internet dashboard interfaces continue to be developed and enhanced to improve the exchange of building automation system data. This may allow the consolidation of large data to evaluate performance, review historical and real-time trends, and the establishing of benchmarks. “Data
    • fernando.contreras
    • 22 December 2014
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    burial ground
    CG: n CT: From 1954 to 1963 the burial ground was used for some of the worst waste generated at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 300 Area just north of Richland. At the 300 Area uranium fuel was fabricated to be irradiated at Hanford’s reactors to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear
    • fernando.contreras
    • 14 January 2021
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    burner
    GC: n CT: Conduction is another way that heat moves. Heat is a form of energy, and when it comes into contact with matter (Anything that you can touch physically) it makes the atoms and molecules move. Once atoms or molecules are moving, they collide with other atoms or molecules,
    • fernando.contreras
    • 20 December 2014
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    butanol
    GC: n CT: Butanol is a four-carbon alcohol. Alcohols also include methanol (1-carbon), ethanol (2-carbon) and propanol (3-carbon). Butanol is used primarily as an industrial solvent. The worldwide market is about 350 million gallons per year with the U.S. market accounting for about 220 million gallons per year. Butanol currently
    • fernando.contreras
    • 16 December 2019
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    butterfly effect
    GC: n CT: The mathematics of chaos has been popularized through the notion of the butterfly effect: the possibility that a large storm in New England may be caused by a butterfly wing flap in China. There are problems with this simple notion. These problems are keys to recognizing the
    • fernando.contreras
    • 29 January 2016
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    butyl alcohol
    See butanol
    • fernando.contreras
    • 21 December 2019
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    byte
    GC: n CT: A byte is a term first coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 and later became more of a standard thanks to Bob Bemer and others. A byte is data equal to either seven or eight bits depending if it needs error correction (parity). You can think of
    • fernando.contreras
    • 30 April 2016
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    floating buoy
    CG: n CT: Floating buoys have been developed which can generate energy from the bobbing or pitching motion caused by the waves. In some buoy type systems the buoy uses a simple mechanical system to turn a crankshaft. For example, in the Indian I-wave system the wave action raises the
    • fernando.contreras
    • 10 December 2014
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    forest
    CG: n CT: According to the FAO, a forest covers more than 0.5 hectares (about 1.24 acres) of land with trees higher than five meters (just over 16 feet) and a canopy cover of over 10%.1 Forests also include areas with younger trees expected to reach a canopy cover of
    • fernando.contreras
    • 20 April 2025
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    ligno-cellulosic biomass
    GC: n CT: Sustainability considerations for product and energy production in a future US economy can be met with lignocellulosic biomass. The age of petroleum as the key resource to meet the US economy requirements is rapidly dwindling, given the limited resources of petroleum, the growing global population and concurrent
    • fernando.contreras
    • 17 November 2014
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    low water
    GC: n CT: In tidal waters, the intersection of the plane of mean low water with the shore. In this definition, it may be assumed that plane of mean low water means a horizontal plane through the average location of the water’s surface on a tide gauge during low water.
    • fernando.contreras
    • 17 November 2014
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    sapling
    CG: n CT: A tree sapling is an immature tree with a slender trunk. Depending on the species of tree, a sapling can be between three and 15 years old, and range in height from 2 to 10 feet (about 0.61 to 3.05 m). Saplings differ from seedlings, which are
    • fernando.contreras
    • 9 December 2014
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