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  2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Also known as Slow burning construction, mill construction, and heavy timber construction originated in industrial mills in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The joists are eliminated by the use of heavy planks saving time and strength of the timbers because the joists notches were eliminated.

  3. Internal ballistics - Wikipedia

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    Another issue to consider, when choosing a powder burn rate, is the time the powder takes to completely burn vs. the time the bullet spends in the barrel. Looking carefully at the left graph, there is a change in the curve, at about 0.8 ms. This is the point at which the powder is completely burned, and no new gas is created.

  4. Dual-thrust rocket motor - Wikipedia

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    When all the fast-burning propellant has burnt, the slow-burning propellant delivers a lower level of thrust. The first phase of acceleration is called "boost" and the second phase "sustain". Not all dual-thrust motors are in a tandem arrangement but non-tandem motors function much the same; they just have a different physical layout of fuel.

  5. Ballistic missile flight phases - Wikipedia

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    The boost phase is the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or space vehicle during which the booster and sustainer engines operate until it reaches peak velocity. . This phase can take 3 to 4 minutes for a solid rocket (shorter for a liquid-propellant rocket), the altitude at the end of this phase is 150–200 km, and the typical burn-out speed is 7 k

  6. Solid-propellant rocket - Wikipedia

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    This made possible slow-burning rocket motors of adequate size and with sufficient shelf-life for jet-assisted take off applications. Charles Bartley , employed at JPL (Caltech), substituted curable synthetic rubber for the gooey asphalt, creating a flexible but geometrically stable load-bearing propellant grain that bonded securely to the ...

  7. Tesla's Slow Burn - AOL

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    The Model S had hit a piece of metal in the roadway, sparking the battery blaze. The incident ended up incinerating Tesla stock, too, as it fell by more than 6% in the days after the incident.. As ...

  8. Both Walking And Cycling Can Help You Lose Weight—But ... - AOL

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    When it comes to walking vs. cycling, both activities are great for beginners and can be made more difficult—either by walking with wrist or ankle weights, or cranking up the resistance on your ...

  9. No 'Spark'? No Problem—Here's Why A 'Slow-Burn ... - AOL

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    Slow-burn relationships tend to be rooted in three things: friendship, a strong foundation of trust, and the experience of love deepening as the connection progresses, says Molly Burrets, PhD, a ...