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  2. Steam turbine - Wikipedia

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    A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from ... A typical 1930s-1960s naval installation is illustrated ...

  3. Nuclear reactor - Wikipedia

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    The nuclear fission causes the water to boil, generating steam. This steam flows through pipes into turbines. The turbines are driven by the steam, and this process generates electricity. [87] During normal operation, pressure is controlled by the amount of steam flowing from the reactor pressure vessel to the turbine. Supercritical water ...

  4. PC game - Wikipedia

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    Valve released the Steam platform for Windows computers in 2003 as a means to distribute Valve-developed video games such as Half-Life 2. It would later see release on the Mac OS X operating system in 2010 and was released on Linux in 2012. By 2011, it controlled 70% of the market for downloadable PC games, with a userbase of about 40 million ...

  5. BioShock - Wikipedia

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    BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K.The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms in August 2007; a PlayStation 3 port by Irrational, 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes was released in October 2008.

  6. Supermarine Spitfire - Wikipedia

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    In June 1939, a Spitfire was fitted with a drum-fed Hispano in each wing, an installation that required large blisters on the wing to cover the 60-round drum, reducing speed by 8 mph (7.0 kn; 13 km/h). The cannon suffered frequent stoppages, mostly because the guns were mounted on their sides to fit as much of the magazine as possible within ...

  7. Ubuntu - Wikipedia

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    As a result, Valve decided that Steam would support Ubuntu 19.10 again. [200] [201] Wine needs most of the same 32-bit library packages that the Steam package depends on, and more, to enable its version of WoW64 to run 32-bit Windows applications. The parts of Wine that would continue to function without 32-bit libraries would be limited to the ...