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ballast
Another potential carrier would have been ships' ballast, especially from ships that were wrecked at the isthmus.
Furthermore, the fluorescent sources had conventional magnetic ballasts and therefore were subject to luminous flicker, whereas incandescent lamps do not flicker.
Suppose a surveyor is surveying a 2000 tonne cargo ship and discovers that ballast water is being stored in a fuel oil tank.
It also has floats and lead ballast units to maintain the stability of the structure.
The extent to which recently-founded labor-populist parties depended on the new unions for "organizational ballast," then became particularly clear.
Like ballast, the dead weight of your loss balances, restrains, holds you to measured meter.
In this, the theory goes, the condition and effectiveness of party organisations and underlying intellectual trends play a far bigger role than any historical ballast.
She also took in a few tons of graphite as ballast after having unloaded her main cargo.
However, since there was no wharf, jetty or landing beach, ballast from wrecked vessels would most likely have been dumped in seawater.
A device called a ballast performs this function.
The way the authors deal with difficult material is not to break it up so that readers can make sense of it, but to weigh it down with academic ballast.
The north masonry facade of the causeway, capped by a parapet, was significantly more formal than the southern edge of the causeway, where the ballast feathered out.
No evidence of subfloor ballast was encountered.
Ballast water is stored in the fuel oil tank.
This constraint specifies that the mass of the yacht, before adding any ballast, must be less than or equal to the mass of the water that it displaces.
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