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chamber and geometry
The gas is injected tangentially into a chamber with special geometry that further increases its rotation to a very high rate, causing the isotopes to separate.
The names are due to the geometry of the light source, observer and interior of the measurement chamber.
; Swirl: Variable geometry can create a beneficial air swirl pattern, or turbulence in the combustion chamber.
For this reason the applied voltage, the geometry of the chamber and the diameter of the anode wire are critical design features.
Caldera dimensions allow scientists to infer the geometry and depth of the magma chamber beneath the summit of the volcano.
Multi-valve geometry allows the spark plug to be ideally located within the combustion chamber for optimal flame propagation.
The fixed geometry of the interaction chamber ensures reproducibility.
Later developments involved exploiting various geometric relationships between the generation of an EBSP and the chamber geometry ( shadow casting and phosphor movement ).

chamber and applied
The name " motet " was preserved in Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to two distinct, and very different, genres: petits motets, sacred choral or chamber compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo ; and grands motets, which included massed choirs and instruments up to and including a full orchestra.
The particles are then propelled by the Lorentz force resulting from the interaction between the current flowing through the plasma and the magnetic field ( which is either externally applied, or induced by the current ) out through the exhaust chamber.
In 1926, Dr Mark C Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar H Booth of the University of Sydney, devised a portable apparatus which " plugged into a lighting point " and in which " One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked in strong salt solution " while the other pole " consisted of a needle insulated except at its point, and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber ".
As voltage is applied, the anions ( and negatively charged sample molecules ) migrate toward the positive electrode ( anode ) in the lower chamber, the leading ion is Cl ¯ ( high mobility and high concentration ); glycinate is the trailing ion ( low mobility and low concentration ).
The term " pollen wasps " in particular, is widely applied to the Masarinae, a subfamily of the Vespidae ; they are remarkable among solitary wasps in that they specialise in gathering pollen for feeding their larvae, carried internally and regurgitated into a mud chamber prior to oviposition.
The substances are applied to the skin or dripped into the eyes ; injected intravenously, intramuscularly, or subcutaneously ; inhaled either by placing a mask over the animals and restraining them, or by placing them in an inhalation chamber ; or administered orally, through a tube into the stomach, or simply in the animal's food.
Two more electric shocks were applied, and at conclusion eyewitnesses reported, Bob Considine among them, that smoke rose from her head in the chamber.
The scalable program has been applied to the simulation of water flowing past ship hulls, gas turbine engines ( including the compressors, combustion chamber, turbines and afterburners ), aircraft aerodynamics, pumps, fans, HVAC systems, mixing vessels, hydrocyclones, vacuum cleaners, and more.
A pulsating flow of ambient air and vacuum is applied to the inflation's air chamber during the milking process.
When any uniform magnetic field is applied across the cloud chamber, positively and negatively charged particles will curve in opposite directions, according to the Lorentz force law with two particles of opposite charge.
headbox: the pressure chamber where turbulence is applied to brake up fiber clumps in the slurry.
The getter is usually a coating applied to a surface within the evacuated chamber.
Of course the collar seal is still applied, so that the body chamber remains airtight.
The technical description of this process is a non-invasive method of propelling high concentrations of a charged substance, normally a medication or bioactive agent, transdermally by repulsive electromotive force using a small electrical charge applied to an iontophoretic chamber containing a similarly charged active agent and its vehicle.
The term also has mundane uses, referring simply to the position of objects, e. g. applied to a basket in Genesis 40. 17, or to a chamber in Ezekiel 42. 5.
An anti-microbial agent applied to a special medium kills pathogens, and an ultraviolet light chamber provides added security.
# Because the heat and pressure of combustion is applied to one specific point on the piston as it exits the precombustion chamber or swirl chamber, such engines are less suited to high specific power outputs ( such as turbocharging or tuning ) than direct injection diesels.
It serves either as a barrier between two chambers, moving slightly up into one chamber or down into the other depending on differences in pressure, or as a device that vibrates when certain frequencies are applied to it.
The arc is applied in the chamber containing the light gas, raising the temperature and pressure to the point where the gas both breaks the bursting disk and ignites the propellant behind the piston, which is perforated to allow ignition.

chamber and voltage
Firing the gap of a spark plug, particularly in the combustion chamber of a high-compression engine, requires a greater voltage ( or higher tension ) than can be achieved by a simple magneto.
As such for higher voltage TEMs a third vacuum system may operate, with the gun isolated from the main chamber either by use of gate valves or by the use of a differential pumping aperture.
A much shorter high voltage pulse is used than with a spark chamber, so there is insufficient time for sparks to form.
A proportional counter uses a combination of the mechanisms of a Geiger-Muller tube and an ionisation chamber, and operates in an intermediate voltage region between these.
) A wire chamber is a chamber with many parallel wires, arranged as a grid and put on high voltage, with the metal casing being on ground potential.
Referring to the accompanying ion pair collection graph, it can be seen that in the " ion chamber " operating region, the collection of ion pairs is effectively constant over a range of applied voltage, as due to its relatively low electric field strength the ion chamber does not have any " multiplication effect ".
For higher voltage ion chambers this requires scrupulous cleaning and avoidance of moisture at the chamber connections and at both ends of any cabling.
In 1900, F. Tudsbury discovered that enclosing a generator in a metallic chamber containing compressed air, or better, carbon dioxide, the insulating properties of compressed gases enabled a greatly improved effect to be obtained owing to the increase in the breakdown voltage of the compressed gas, and reduction of the leakage across the plates and insulating supports.
This current is independent of the applied voltage if the device is being operated in the " ion chamber region ".

chamber and is
Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.
A cylinder's compression ratio is computed by comparing the cylinder's volume, or its displacement, with the total volume of the cylinder and its combustion chamber.
To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.
The amount of liquid poured into the chamber is determined by subtracting the quantity still in the beaker when the chamber is full from the original quantity.
The volume of the opening is added to the combustion chamber volume.
This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.
The total of these three volumes is the `` final combustion chamber volume ''.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.
The dryer is provided with a means of maintaining a drying temperature of 120-degrees - 160-degrees-F ( 49*0 - 71*&0C. ), measured in the exhaust vent as close as possible to the drying chamber.
Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.
What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.
It is widely used in commercial ionization chamber smoke detectors, as well as in neutron sources and industrial gauges.
A group of instruments in which each member plays a unique part — rather than playing in unison with other like instruments — is referred to as a chamber ensemble.
A chamber ensemble made up entirely of strings of the violin family is referred to by its size.
This high pressure is achieved by burning the propellant in a contained area, either the chamber of a gun barrel or the combustion chamber of a rocket motor.
The sample solution is aspirated by a pneumatic nebulizer, transformed into an aerosol, which is introduced into a spray chamber, where it is mixed with the flame gases and conditioned in a way that only the finest aerosol droplets (< 10 μm ) enter the flame.

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