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Automation

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Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes. Human intervention is reduced by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions — and embodying those predeterminations in machines. Automation, includes the use of various equipment and control systems such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers, and heat-treating ovens, switching on telephone networks; steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft, and other applications and vehicles with […]

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What is the goop inside a lava lamp?

All / Carbon, Oil, Water

A classic lava lamp contains a standard incandescent or halogen lamp which heats a tall (often tapered) glass bottle. A formula from a 1968 US patent consisted of water and a transparent, translucent, or opaque mix of mineral oil, paraffin wax, and carbon tetrachloride. The clear water or mineral oil can optionally be coloured with translucent dyes.

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Control system

All / Machinery, Oil, Opera, System

Using control loops, a control system manages, commands, directs, or controls the behavior of other devices or systems. It can range from a single home heating controller that uses a thermostat to operate a residential boiler to massive industrial control systems that control processes or machinery.

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Water vapor

All / Element, Gas, Oil, Water

Water vapor, often known as water vapour or aqueous vapor, is the gaseous phase of water. It is a kind of water in the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be formed through the evaporation or boiling of liquid water, or by the sublimation of ice. Water vapor, like the majority of the atmosphere’s elements, is transparent.

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List of people named in the Pandora Papers

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Heads of state Current heads of state at the time of the release Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of the Congo Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon Abdullah II, King of Jordan Uhuru Kenyatta, President

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Wesley Autrey

All / City, Construction, Film, New York, Oil, Opera

Wesley Autrey is a New York City construction worker and Navy veteran who gained international attention in 2007 by preventing a New York City subway train from hitting Cameron Hollopeter, a film student who had experienced a seizure and fallen into the tracks. He is on Time magazine’s 2007 list of the world’s 100 most

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