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  2. Chipseal - Wikipedia

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    Chip seal products can be installed over gravel roads to eliminate the cost of grading, road roughness, dust, mud, and the cost of adding gravel lost from grading. Adding chip seal over gravel is about 25% of the price of resurfacing with asphalt , $170,000 for a 4-mile project done in Minnesota [ 6 ] compared to $760,000 had it been redone ...

  3. UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

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    A UN 4G Doublewall corrugated fiberboard box with dividers for shipping four bottles of corrosive liquid, certified to the Packing Group III performance level. The first version of the Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods was produced by the ECOSOC in 1956. [1]

  4. Tar - Wikipedia

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    One can produce a tar-like substance from corn stalks by heating them in a microwave oven. This process is known as pyrolysis. Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. [1]

  5. tar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.

  6. Road test waivers ending at NC DMV, as COVID-era policy comes ...

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    In October 2020, the DMV developed a road test for teens under 18 seeking a full provisional license. The test involved examiners setting up cones in large parking lots and watching the driver ...

  7. Bitumen - Wikipedia

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    During the early and mid-20th century, when town gas was produced, coal tar was a readily available byproduct and extensively used as the binder for road aggregates. The addition of coal tar to macadam roads led to the word "tarmac", which is now used in common parlance to refer to road-making materials. However, since the 1970s, when natural ...

  8. In-person road tests are once again required in Wisconsin ...

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    The COVID-era road test waiver program ended in December. You can schedule an in-person, behind-the-wheel road test up to 11 weeks in advance online.

  9. Carbon black - Wikipedia

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    Worker at carbon black plant, 1942. Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air.