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blow: the distance an air stream travels on leaving an outlet, before its velocity is reduced to a specific value
Category: Physics

blow: removal of the contents(pulp and spent liquor)through an exit at the base of the digester under the action of the digester pressure
Category: Various industries and crafts

blow: a residual pocket of air between two plies or glued webs
Category: Various industries and crafts

blow: a sudden inflow of water into an excavation or cofferdam caused by rapidly developed piping
Category: Building industry

blow-down: process of expulsion of residual propellant by gas pressure after burnout or cutoff
Category: Transport

blow-line: in angling a light fishing-line with real or artificial bait,allowed to float over the surface of water with the wind
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blow-out: novelty device consisting of a flexible rolled tube that straightens and extends suddenly when the breath is blown into its open end
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

blow-outs: bubbling springs carrying with them a volume of sand and occurring behind levees,fed by channels through or under levees
Category: Building industry

blow-up: a sudden increase in fire intensity and rate of flame-spread, sufficient to preclude direct control or to upset existing control plans; often accompanied by violent convection and may have other characteristics of a fire storm
Category: Management in the public and private sector

blowback: escape,to the rear and under pressure,of gases formed during the firing of the weapon.Blowback may be caused by a defective breech mechanism,a ruptured cartridge case or a faultry primer
Category: Defense

blowback: type of weapon operation in which the force of expanding gases acting to the rear against the face of the bolt furnishes all the energy required to initiate the complete cycle of operation.A weapon which employs this method of operation is characterized by the absence of any breech-lock or bolt-lock mechanism
Category: Defense

blowdown: the removal of concentrations of solids from a boiler by blowing-down some of the water to waste for a pre-determined period
Category: Mechanical engineering

blowdown: rejection of liquid from a vessel under pressure to reduce dissolved solids
Category: Mechanical engineering

blowdown: during depressurization,or blowdown,of the reactor coolant system,water and steam flow from the reactor vessel to the break through inlet and outlet lines.The direction and rate of flow through the core vary with time
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

blower: general term for the machine which produces the blast for a blast furnace; can be axial or radial, electric drive or steam turbine (turbo-blower)
Category: Iron and steel industries

blower: an air compressor for supplying a relatively large volume of air, under relatively high pressure
Category: Physics

blower: Fitted to internal combustion engines to increase weight of air supplied to cylinders per stroke thereby increasing power output/cylinder.Excess air may be provided to assist cylinder exhaust process.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blower: a high-speed turbine that circulates laser gas through the electrodes and the heat exchanger in a resonator
Category: Chemistry

blower: pneumatic conveyors transport materials in an arrangement of tube or ducts. Air compressors or -- are used to create the differences in air pressure in the tubes that cause the materials to move.
Category: Mechanical engineering

blower: those generating pressures below 1 lb per sq in are called fans; those generating pressures above 35 lb per sq in are called centrifugal compressors. High speed turbine-driven -- are called turboblowers.
Category: Mechanical engineering

blower-grader: machine for sorting animal hair according to length
Category: Various industries and crafts

blowhole: round or elongated smooth-walled gas-filled cavity in solid metals,produced during solidification of the ingot when excess gas is liberated if the steel is not killed sufficiently
Category: Iron and steel industries

blowhole: a hole produced in a casting when gas, entrapped while the mould is being filled, or evolved during the solidification of metal, fails to escape and is held in pockets.
Category: Iron and steel industries

blowing: removal of the contents(pulp and spent liquor)through an exit at the base of the digester under the action of the digester pressure
Category: Various industries and crafts

blown: partially oxidised and polymerised oil produced by blowing air through the oil, with application of heat
Category: The chemical industry

blown: a flap over the upper surface of which air or other gas is ejected with sufficient momentum to increase its effectiveness,and prevent boundary layer separation
Category: Transport

blown: an outer cable covering applied by the controlled inflation of the cured jacket tube and the pulling of the cable through it
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

blown: A finish applied to wool materials,obtained by blowing dry steam through the fabric,which is wrapped on a perforated cylinder with an interleaving cotton fabric.
Category: Various industries and crafts

blown: bitumen produced by blowing air through a soft straight-run bitumen or heavy bituminous oil at high temperature; a product resulting from the infusion of air through bitumen or heavy bituminous oils previously heated; a special grade of bitumen prepared by the oxidation of short residues, normally by blowing air at an elevated temperature
Category: Building industry

blown: a shot which dissipates the explosive force by blowing out the stemming instead of breaking down the coal
Category: Mining

blown: a portion of the peripheral hem blown between two rigging lines on another section of the parachute canopy during inflation,and inflating inside out,thus forming a lobe.This is sometimes erroneously termed 'thrown line'
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

blown: drying oil-or a mixture of drying oils-which has been blown with a current of air during heat treatment
Category: The chemical industry

blown: castor oil which has been blown with a current of air during heat treatment
Category: The chemical industry

blown: a parachute malfunction in which one of the segments of a gore is ripped or torn out.
Category: Defense

blown-out: a shot which dissipates the explosive force by blowing out the stemming instead of breaking down the coal
Category: Mining

blowout: a hollow or depression of the land surface,generally saucer or trough shaped,formed by wind erosion,especially in an area of shifting sand or loose soil,or where vegetation is disturbed or destroyed
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blowout: boil; 2)Bursting under hydrostatic pressure; 3)The depressed area from which soil has been removed by wind erosion
Category: The cosmos

blowpipe: a pipe which conveys the blast for a blast furnace from the tuyere stock to the tuyere
Category: Iron and steel industries

blowpipe: The mixing chamber and blowing tip of the device for oxyacetylene welding
Category: Management in the public and private sector

glass-blowing: a hand process of producing various small objects by using a flame to shape glass rods
Category: Various industries and crafts

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