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  2. Pitch drop experiment - Wikipedia

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    The eighth drop fell on 28 November 2000, allowing experimenters to calculate the pitch as having a viscosity of approximately 230 billion times that of water. [ 6 ] This experiment is recorded in Guinness World Records as the "world's longest continuously running laboratory experiment", [ 7 ] and it is expected there is enough pitch in the ...

  3. Phase diagram - Wikipedia

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    The pressure on a pressure-temperature diagram (such as the water phase diagram shown above) is the partial pressure of the substance in question. A phase diagram in physical chemistry , engineering , mineralogy , and materials science is a type of chart used to show conditions (pressure, temperature, etc.) at which thermodynamically distinct ...

  4. Stagnation temperature - Wikipedia

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    q = Heat per unit mass added into the system. Strictly speaking, enthalpy is a function of both temperature and density. However, invoking the common assumption of a calorically perfect gas, enthalpy can be converted directly into temperature as given above, which enables one to define a stagnation temperature in terms of the more fundamental property, stagnation enthalpy.

  5. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    Cold mix asphalt is often used on lower-volume rural roads, where hot mix asphalt would cool too much on the long trip from the asphalt plant to the construction site. [18] An asphalt concrete surface will generally be constructed for high-volume primary highways having an average annual daily traffic load greater than 1,200 vehicles per day. [19]

  6. Highway engineering - Wikipedia

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    Highway engineering (also known as roadway engineering and street engineering) is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.

  7. Stagnation point flow - Wikipedia

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    The solution for axisymmetric stagnation point flow in the presence of a solid wall was first obtained by Homann (1936). [15] A typical example of this flow is the forward stagnation point appearing in a flow past a sphere.

  8. Pavement milling - Wikipedia

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    Pavement milling (cold planing, asphalt milling, or profiling) is the process of removing at least part of the surface of a paved area such as a road, bridge, or parking lot. Milling removes anywhere from just enough thickness to level and smooth the surface to a full depth removal.

  9. Triple point - Wikipedia

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    The melting point of ordinary ice decreases with pressure, as shown by the phase diagram's dashed green line. Just below the triple point, compression at a constant temperature transforms water vapor first to solid and then to liquid. Historically, during the Mariner 9 mission to Mars, the triple point pressure of water was used to define "sea ...