"I'm not very good," he laughs, his breath pluming the air.
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She smiles with her lips closed, one cheek dimpled, feathers pluming from a crown braid.
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We threw another Juniper log on the fire, and watched the smoke pluming near the tree tops.
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The black smoke pluming from oil fires completely consumes the landscape—a landscape that is otherwise just tan-colored, undulating plains in all directions.
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Firefighters and water-bombing helicopters are in the midst of tackling an ominous cloud of toxic black smoke pluming from a fire at a tyre recycling plant in Melbourne, Victoria.
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A private balcony offered a view of the valley's eastern hills, steam pluming from one of Indian Springs' three active geysers, and an attractively landscaped pond in which a pair of resident mallards quacked quietly.
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But there it was, next to the laser lights and the rattling sound system, pluming white fog around a subterranean hotel ballroom in which people in tuxedos and evening gowns representing more than 246 countries had gathered to find out who among them could smoke a cigar the slowest.
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Browning is controlled red rust Fe2O3 and is also known as pluming or plum brown. One can generally use the same solution to brown as to blue. The difference is immersion in boiling water for bluing. The rust then turns to black-blue Fe3O4.
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Condensing boilers are claimed to have a reputation for being less reliable and may also suffer if worked on by installers and plumbers who may not understand their operation.Guardian newspaper: The new boiler that's causing a heated row. 2 April 2005 Claims of unreliability have been contradicted by research carried out by the UK-based Building Research Establishment (see Building Research Establishment). In particular, the problem of 'pluming' arose with early installations of condensing boilers, in which a white plume of condensed vapour (as minuscule droplets) becomes visible at the outlet flue.
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Although unimportant to boiler operation, visible pluming was an aesthetic issue that caused much opposition to condensing boilers. A more significant issue is the slight (pH 3-4) acidity of the condensate liquid. Where this is in direct contact with the boiler's heat exchanger, particularly for thin aluminium sheet, it may give rise to more rapid corrosion than for traditional non-condensing boilers. Older boilers may also have used thick cast heat exchangers, rather than sheet, which had slower time constants for their response but were also resistant, by their sheer mass, to any corrosion.
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Frontispiece of Coresio's Operetta intorno al Galleggiare de Corpi Solidi, arguing against Galileo's views Giorgio Coresio (1570-1659?) from the Greek (then Ottoman) island of Chios was a lecturer in Greek at the University of Pisa from 1609-1615. He was obliged to resign his chair either because it was discovered that he secretly professed the Greek Orthodox faith, or because of his mental illness - he is said to have had daily visions of saints. Coresio was one of the group described scornfully by Galileo as the 'Pigeon League' of Aristotelian philosophers, associated with Lodovico delle Colombe. Galileo argued for an approach which he described as 'pluming the wings [i.e.
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The mayor appointed the members of the boards of fire commissioners (of which the mayor is a member), police, school examiners, jubilee water commissioner, pluming and water commissioners and the board of trustees for the Grosvernor Library and the commissioners on the civil service and playground commissions. The mayor also appointed the health commissioner, superintendent of markets, examiner of street engines, inspector of steam boilers, harbor master and oil inspector. The board of health consisted of the mayor, health commissioner and commissioner of public works. Along with his two mayoral appointed directors, the mayor, superintendent of education and another official serves as directors of public library.
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More than two-thirds of all nuclear plants ordered after January 1970 were eventually cancelled. A total of 63 nuclear units were canceled in the United States between 1975 and 1980.The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry p. 110. In 1972 Alvin Weinberg, co-inventor of the light water reactor design (the most common nuclear reactors today) was fired from his job at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Nixon administration, "at least in part" over his raising of concerns about the safety and wisdom of ever larger scaling-up of his design, especially above a power rating of ~500 MWe, as in a loss of coolant accident scenario, the decay heat generated from such large compact solid-fuel cores was thought to be beyond the capabilities of passive/natural convection cooling to prevent a rapid fuel rod melt-down and resulting in then, potential far reaching fission product pluming.
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