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volume and opening
The volume of the cylinder opening in the head gasket must be computed by multiplying its area in square inches by the gasket's thickness in thousandths of an inch.
This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.
Secondly, by contracting the abdominal muscles that cover the posterior opening of the shell, the internal volume of the shell increases, drawing air into the lungs, allowing these muscles to function in much the same way as the mammalian diaphragm.
This typically strengthens the output of a weaker voice but it also reduces the exchange volume of pulmonary function, as the tracheal opening has been permanently reduced.
The opening of the Little Rock, Hot Springs & Western Railroad in April 1900 provided a more direct access to Hot Springs from Little Rock and the north, and both the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf and the Iron Mountain took advantage of this route, effectively cutting the volume of interchange traffic into Malvern.
It was opened in 1976 and operated until 1998, when sales and customer volume declined sharply after the opening of the Brandon Town Center in nearby Brandon.
Higher lift allows accurate timing of airflow ; although even by allowing a larger volume of air to pass in the relatively larger opening, the brevity of the typical duration with a higher lift cam results in less airflow than with a cam with lower lift but more duration, all else being equal.
It is in fact, in the 1802 volume that the poem with the famous line ascribed to Barrington appears, a 48-line " Prologue " said to have been written for the 1796 opening of a Sydney theatre.
The People's Republic of China decided to accelerate the modernization process by stepping up the volume of foreign trade by opening up its markets, especially the purchase of machinery from Japan and the West.
The opening of these roads has reduced considerably the volume of heavy goods vehicles passing through the town centre.
* Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide ( Part 2 ) – The beginning of the Rolling Stones ' " Sympathy for the Devil " was originally heard during the opening scene ; it was replaced by generic music ( however, the new music remains at the same volume even after Jennifer turns down the speaker, and nearly drowns out her subsequent conversation with Andy ).
The opening page of the first volume of The Annual Register.
He did not, however, live to carry it farther than the Battle of Waterloo, and the best criticism of it is perhaps contained in the opening words of the introduction to the last volume --" l ' âge me presse " ( Age hurries me ).
After-touch is most prevalent in music of the mid to late 1980s, such as the opening string-pad on Cock Robin's When Your Heart Is Weak, which is only possible with the use of after-touch ( or one hand on the volume control ).
The entire first volume of The Diamond Chariot is an allusion to Alexander Kuprin's Junior Captain Rybnikov, and the opening sentence of The Winter Queen is a clear reference to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
The idea of this " great work " germinated in him in the 1820s, and he announced what was intended to be a vast philosophico-poetic epic of the past, present and future in its opening volume, Prolégomènes, published in 1827.
The extreme bass volume can be produced if one hits with the flat hand the opening at the top of the instrument.
It was expected that with the opening of the park the volume of cross river traffic would increase significantly, putting further strain on the dilapidated Battersea Bridge.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. demolished the Kingdome by implosion on March 26, 2000 ( one day before the 24th anniversary of the Kingdome's opening ), setting a record recognized by Guinness World Records for the largest building, by volume, ever demolished by implosion.
In those with acute respiratory failure on mechanical ventilation, " the static compliance of the total respiratory system is conventionally obtained by dividing the tidal volume by the difference between the " plateau " pressure measured at the airway opening ( PaO ) during an occlusion at end-inspiration and positive end-expiratory pressure ( PEEP ) set by the ventilator ".
Multi-bottle rockets are created by joining two or more bottles in any of several different ways ; bottles can be connected via their nozzles, by cutting them apart and sliding the sections over each other, or by connecting them opening to bottom, making a chain to increase volume.
Upon opening it, the sender's voice, which has been magically magnified to a deafening volume, will bellow a message at the recipient and then self-destruct.

volume and is
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.
The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.
It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.
Undoubtedly, however, the significance of the volume is greater than the foregoing paragraphs suggest.
The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.
The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.
Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.
The cross-sectional area of the cylinders is determined and then the volume of the individual cylinders is computed by multiplying the area by the stroke length, which is the equivalent of the length of the cylinders.
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.
Cylinder volume is determined in exactly the same manner as for the displacement formula: Af.
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.
Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.
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.

volume and added
When more electrons are added to a single atom, the additional electrons tend to more evenly fill in a volume of space around the nucleus so that the resulting collection ( sometimes termed the atom ’ s “ electron cloud ” ) tends toward a generally spherical zone of probability describing where the atom ’ s electrons will be found.
If weight is added to the boat, the volume below the waterline will increase to keep the weight balance equal, and so the boat sinks a little to compensate.
Then the volume of gas was carefully measured as additional mercury was added to the tube.
The emergence of great factories and consumption of immense quantities of coal and other fossil fuels gave rise to unprecedented air pollution and the large volume of industrial chemical discharges added to the growing load of untreated human waste.
In cheap sake, a large amount of brewer ’ s alcohol might be added to increase the volume of sake produced.
A titration curve is a curve in the plane whose x-coordinate is the volume of titrant added since the beginning of the titration, and whose y-coordinate is the concentration of the analyte at the corresponding stage of the titration ( in an acid-base titration, the y-coordinate is usually the pH of the solution ).
Some fifteen months later he added a private printing-press to his multifarious occupations and started upon the first volume issued from the Kelmscott Press.
The printing of Domesday, in " record type ", was begun by the government in 1773, and the book was published, in two volumes, in 1783 ; in 1811, a volume of indexes was added, and in 1816 a supplementary volume, separately indexed, containing
In the early Christian experience the New Testament was added to the whole Jewish Tanakh, which after Jerome's translation tended more and more to be bound up as a single volume, and was accepted as a unified locus of authority: " the Book.
This smallness of their size is such that the total volume of the individual gas molecules added up is negligible compared to the volume of the smallest open ball containing all the molecules.
It was the first edition of Britannica to be issued with a comprehensive index volume in which was added a categorical index, where like topics were listed.
The piston is momentarily at rest at TDC and heat is added to the working fluid at constant volume from an external heat source which is brought into contact with the cylinder head.
In 1807 he had published in a sumptuous volume the Columbiad, an extended edition of his Vision of Columbus, more pompous even than the original ; but, though it added to his reputation in some quarters, on the whole it was not well received, and it has subsequently been much ridiculed.
To calculate how much more fuel had to be added, the crew needed to convert the quantity in the tanks to a weight, subtract that figure from 22, 300 and convert the result back into a volume.
A scene graph can easily be adapted to include / become a BVH — if each node has a volume associated or there is a purpose-built ' bound node ' added in at convenient location in the hierarchy.
Malebranche replied in a short preface added to that second volume, and then, in the 1678 third edition, he added 50 % to the already considerable size of the book with a sequence of ( eventually ) seventeen Elucidations.
In the following year he published the first volume of his famous work Essai sur la métaphysique d ' Aristote, to which in 1846 he added a supplementary volume.

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