Net Deals Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Panama Canal locks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_locks

    The Panama Canal locks ( Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. The total length of the lock structures, including the approach walls, is ...

  3. Airlock - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airlock

    An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments. "Airlock" is sometimes written as air-lock or air lock, or abbreviated to just lock . An airlock consists of a chamber with ...

  4. Miraflores (Panama) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraflores_(Panama)

    Miraflores (Panama) Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean ...

  5. Emergency eyewash and safety shower station - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_eyewash_and...

    At 60" (152.4 cm) above the floor, the water pattern should be 20" (50.8 cm) in diameter (Section 4.1.4). If shower enclosure is provided. It should provide 34" in diameter of unobstructed space (86.4 cm) (Section 4.3). Water temperature of safety shower station should be within 60 °F - 100 °F (16 °C - 38 °C).

  6. Truth or Consequences Hot Springs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences_Hot...

    Discharge. 2.5 million gallons per day (11.3 million liters) Temperature. 100 to 110 °F (38 to 43 °C) Location in New Mexico. Truth or Consequences Hot Springs is a thermal spring system located in the Hot Springs Artesian Basin area of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (formerly known as Hot Springs, New Mexico) in Sierra County.

  7. Ballard Locks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Locks

    Ballard Locks. /  47.66556°N 122.39722°W  / 47.66556; -122.39722. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [ 2]: 2 [ 3][ 4]: 6.

  8. Archaeologists Finally Decoded a 4,000-Year-Old Tablet—and It ...

    www.aol.com/archaeologists-finally-decoded-4-000...

    Emma Frederickson. August 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Newly Decoded Tablet Warns, 'A King Will Die'HomoCosmicos - Getty Images. Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 ...

  9. Heat-based contraception - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-based_contraception

    Heat-based contraception. An alternative male contraceptive method involves heating the testicles so that they cannot produce sperm. Sperm are best produced at a temperature slightly below body temperature. The muscles around a male's scrotum involuntarily tighten if the man's body temperature drops, and they loosen, allowing the testes to hang ...