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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industri: Energy
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One of 10 fields of economic activity defined by the Standard Industrial Classification Manual. The manufacturing division includes all establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products. The other divisions of the U.S. economy are agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, and trapping; mining; construction; transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; personal, business, professional, repair, recreation, and other services; and public administration. The establishments in the manufacturing division constitute the universe for the MECS (an EIAsurvey).
Industry:Energy
Atmosfer altında yaklaşık 15 kilometre içinde olan normal sürekli bir düşüş yüksekliği artan sıcaklık, iç katmanı. Neredeyse tüm bulutlar formu ve hava koşulları bildirimini kendilerini bu bölgeye . Termal yapısını çalkantılı karıştırma ve konveksiyon ısı transferi ardından güneş radyasyonu, öncelikle Dünya'nın yüzey Isıtma tarafından neden olur.
Industry:Energy
A region of transition between semiconductor layers, such as a p/n junction, which goes from a region that has a high concentration of acceptors (p-type) to one that has ahigh concentration of donors (n-type).
Industry:Energy
An electric railway with the capacity for a "heavy volume" of traffic and characterised by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid acceleration, sophisticated signaling, and high platform loading. Also known as"subway," elevated (railway), "metropolitan railway (metro)."
Industry:Energy
An economic unit at a single physical location where mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products are performed.
Industry:Energy
Water containing a significantly greater proportion of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) atoms to ordinary hydrogen atoms than is found in ordinary (light) water. Heavy water isused as a moderator in some reactors because it slows neutrons effectively and also has a low cross section for absorption of neutrons.
Industry:Energy
The change in cost associated witha unit change in quantity supplied or produced.
Industry:Energy
A type of turbine that that has two blades whose pitch is adjustable. The turbine may have gates to control the angle of the fluid flow into the blades.
Industry:Energy
A reactor that uses heavy water as its moderator. Heavy water is an excellent moderator and thus permits the use of in expensive natural (unenriched)uranium as fuel.
Industry:Energy
Freight transported over rivers, canals, the Great Lakes, and domestic ocean waterways.
Industry:Energy