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  2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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    Activation is performed with a utility supplied with Windows and Office called the Activation Wizard. It can be performed either over the Internet or by telephone . [ 1 ] When activating over the Internet, the Activation Wizard automatically transmits and receives verification data to and from Microsoft servers, completing the process without ...

  3. Product activation - Wikipedia

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    Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.

  4. Cold liquor tank - Wikipedia

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    The specific use case for a Cold Liquor Tank as opposed to other tanks holding the same quality of water in a brewery is that it holds the water which will be used to cool Wort after it has been through the brew kettle or copper vessel (a brew kettle is a boiling vessel used to break open complex sugars into simpler sugars). The wort ...

  5. Swimming pool reactor - Wikipedia

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    A swimming pool reactor, [1] also called an open pool reactor, is a type of nuclear reactor that has a core (consisting of the fuel elements and the control rods) immersed in an open pool usually of water. [2] The water acts as neutron moderator, cooling agent and radiation shield. The layer of water directly above the reactor core shields the ...

  6. Expansion tank - Wikipedia

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    An expansion tank or expansion vessel is a small tank used to protect closed water heating systems and domestic hot water systems from excessive pressure. The tank is partially filled with air, whose compressibility cushions shock caused by water hammer [ citation needed ] and absorbs excess water pressure caused by thermal expansion .

  7. Storage water heater - Wikipedia

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    Solar heat is clean and renewable. This is the most modern system. Increasingly, solar powered water heaters are being used. Their solar thermal collectors are installed outside dwellings, typically on the roof or walls or nearby, and the potable hot water storage tank is typically a pre-existing or new conventional water heater, or a water heater specifically designed for solar thermal.

  8. Boiling water reactor safety systems - Wikipedia

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    The Reactor Protection System (RPS) is a system, computerized in later BWR models, that is designed to automatically, rapidly, and completely shut down and make safe the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS – the reactor pressure vessel, pumps, and water/steam piping within the containment) if some event occurs that could result in the reactor entering an unsafe operating condition.

  9. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    Manual fire alarm activation requires human intervention, as distinct from automatic fire alarm activation such as that provided through the use of heat detectors and smoke detectors. It is, however, possible for call points/pull stations to be used in conjunction with automatic detection as part of the overall fire detection and alarm system .