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  2. Trap (plumbing) - Wikipedia

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    In plumbing, a trap is a U-shaped portion of pipe designed to trap liquid or gas to prevent unwanted flow; most notably sewer gases from entering buildings while allowing waste materials to pass through. In oil refineries, traps are used to prevent hydrocarbons and other dangerous gases and chemical fumes from escaping through drains.

  3. Siphon - Wikipedia

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    The term "siphon" is used for a number of structures in human and animal anatomy, either because flowing liquids are involved or because the structure is shaped like a siphon, but in which no actual siphon effect is occurring: see Siphon (disambiguation). There has been a debate if whether the siphon mechanism plays a role in blood circulation ...

  4. Tubi - Wikipedia

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    Tubi, Inc. (stylized as tubi) is an American over-the-top content platform and free ad-supported streaming television service owned by Fox Corporation since 2020, [2] [3] and in 2023 it, Credible Labs, and a few other Fox digital assets were placed into a new division known as the Tubi Media Group.

  5. Trap primer - Wikipedia

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    A trap primer (or trap seal primer) is a plumbing device or valve that adds water to traps.The water seals in traps are needed to prevent sewer gases from entering buildings, but because this water is exposed to the air, it is subject to evaporation over time in infrequently used floor drains, leading to the release of sewer gas into the environment.

  6. Trap–bath split - Wikipedia

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    The TRAP – BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South African English and to a lesser extent in some Welsh English as well as older Northeastern New England English by which the Early Modern English phoneme /æ/ was lengthened in certain environments and ...

  7. Buchan trap - Wikipedia

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    The Buchan trap was devised in the 19th century to stop the flow of sewer gases due to the miasma theory of disease. [1] For example, it was believed that the disease cholera was an airborne infection, not waterborne. The Buchan trap is normally found in the bottom of manholes or drop-shafts.

  8. Petroleum trap - Wikipedia

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    Anticlinal trap. An anticline is an area of the subsurface where the strata have been pushed into forming a domed shape. If there is a layer of impermeable rock present in this dome shape, then water-insoluble hydrocarbons can accumulate at the crest until the anticline is filled to the spill point (the highest point where hydrocarbons can escape the anticline).

  9. Trapping - Wikipedia

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    Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century Animal trapping , or simply trapping or ginning , is the use of a device to remotely catch and often kill an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including for meat , fur / feathers , sport hunting , pest control , and wildlife management .