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  2. Toilet-related injuries and deaths - Wikipedia

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    The danger of spiders living beneath toilet seats is the subject of Slim Newton's comic 1972 country song "The Redback on the Toilet Seat". It has been reported that in some cases rats crawl up through toilet sewer pipes and emerge in the toilet bowl, so that toilet users may be at risk of having a rat bite their buttocks. [9]

  3. Blast injury - Wikipedia

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    Injury from blast overpressure is a pressure and time dependent function. By increasing the pressure or its duration, the severity of injury will also increase. [3] Extensive damage can also be inflicted upon the auditory system. The tympanic membrane (also known as the eardrum) may be perforated

  4. Flushometer - Wikipedia

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    Because the water is gradually shut off, slower water at the end of the cycle that will not activate the siphon serves to refill the bowl. The valve cannot be kept open by holding the flush lever in the activated position, wasting water, because this only sends the main cylinder valve all the way up to its topmost shut off position.

  5. Uncontrolled decompression - Wikipedia

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    The second type of decompression changes from exceptionally high pressure (many atmospheres) to normal atmospheric pressure (one atmosphere) as may occur in deep-sea diving. The first type is more common as pressure reduction from normal atmospheric pressure to a vacuum can be found in both space exploration and high-altitude aviation .

  6. Drain cleaner - Wikipedia

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    A sewer jetter is composed of a controlled high-pressure water source such as a pressure washer or reciprocating displacement pump, a flexible high-pressure line (called a jetter hose, which connects the high-pressure engine to the mini-reel) of up to hundreds of metres (several hundred feet) in length, the Mini-Reel (a hose reel which can be ...

  7. Contact explosive - Wikipedia

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    A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure, sound, light). Though different contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity, they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives.

  8. People are reporting that their watermelons are exploding ...

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    My husband left for work around 6 am & when I walked in the kitchen around 9 am, this is what I walked into. The white stuff was a foamy bubbly substance. The yellow juice was chunky & thick.

  9. Chlorine bomb - Wikipedia

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    A chlorine bomb is a small explosive device which uses the pressure of chemically produced chlorine gas or other chlorine-containing gases such as hydrogen chloride to produce an explosion. It is made with an airtight container part-filled with different types of chlorine tablet and other reagents.