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Any free-standing box or controlled-draft stove; or a stove installed in a fireplace opening, using the chimney of the fireplace. Stoves are made of cast iron, sheet metal, or plate steel. Free-standing fireplaces that can be detached from their chimneys are considered heating stoves.
Industry:Energy
These are like residential-style dimmer switches. They are not generally used with fluorescent and high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps.
Industry:Energy
A multiple-purpose hydroelectric plant. An example is a dam that stores water for both flood control and power production.
Industry:Energy
The average number of British thermal units per cubic foot of natural gas as determined from tests offuel samples.
Industry:Energy
A gas obtained by destructive distillation of coal or by the thermal decomposition of oil, or by there action of steam passing through a bed of heated coal or coke. Examples are coal gases, coke oven gases, producer gas, blast furnace gas, blue (water) gas, carbureted water gas. Btu content varies widely.
Industry:Energy
The meter-kilogram-second unit of work orenergy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves through a distance of one metre in the direction ofthe force; equivalent to 107 ergs and one watt-second.
Industry:Energy
Petroleum distillates with anapproximate boiling range from 651 degrees Fahrenheit to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Industry:Energy
An energy-consuming subsector of the industrial sector that consists of all facilities and equipment engaged in the mechanical, physical, chemical, or electronic transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products. Assembly of component parts of products is included, except for that which is included in construction.
Industry:Energy
The rate of heat production by a steady current in any part of an electrical circuit that is proportional to the resistance and to the square of the current, or, the internal energy of an ideal gas depends only on its temperature.
Industry:Energy
Metallic elements, including those required for plant and animal nutrition, in trace concentration but which become toxic at higher concentrations. Examples are mercury, chromium, cadmium, and lead.
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