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  2. Coffman engine starter - Wikipedia

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    The Coffman starter was the most common brand of cartridge starters during the mid-1930s, and the name was used as a generic description. ... "Gun Shell Start Army ...

  3. Shell (projectile) - Wikipedia

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    QF 12-pounder common pointed shell. Common pointed shells, or CP were a type of common shell used in naval service from the 1890s – 1910s which had a solid nose and a percussion fuze in the base rather than the common shell's nose fuze. The ogival two C.R.H. solid pointed nose was considered suitable for attacking shipping but was not armour ...

  4. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Windows Shell provides desktop environment, start menu, and task bar, as well as a graphical user interface for accessing the file management functions of the operating system. Older versions also include Program Manager , which was the shell for the 3.x series of Microsoft Windows, and which in fact shipped with later versions of Windows of ...

  5. Aircraft engine starting - Wikipedia

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    Gas turbine aircraft engines such as turbojets, turboshafts and turbofans often use air/pneumatic starting, with the use of bleed air from built-in auxiliary power units (APUs) or external air compressors now seen as a common starting method. Often only one engine needs be started using the APU (or remote compressor).

  6. 155 mm caliber - Wikipedia

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    155 mm (6.1 in) is a NATO-standard artillery shell caliber that is used in many field guns, howitzers, and gun-howitzers. It is defined in AOP-29 part 1 with reference to STANAG 4425. Land warfare

  7. Windows shell - Wikipedia

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    In Windows 10, the Windows Shell Experience Host interface drives visuals like the Start Menu, Action Center, Taskbar, and Task View/Timeline. However, the Windows shell also implements a shell namespace that enables computer programs running on Windows to access the computer's resources via the hierarchy of shell objects. "Desktop" is the top ...

  8. List of gasoline additives - Wikipedia

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    Fuel dyes, most common: Solvent Red 24; Solvent Red 26; Solvent Yellow 124; Solvent Blue 35; Fuel additives in general Ether and other flammable hydrocarbons have been used extensively as starting fluid for many difficult-to-start engines, especially diesel engines; Nitromethane, or "nitro", is a high-performance racing fuel

  9. Unix shell - Wikipedia

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    tcsh and sh shell windows on a Mac OS X Leopard [1] desktop. A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using ...