The following extract is taken from the Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton, 1833: Graine, Isle of A parish in the Hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, opposite to Sheppey at the mouth of the Thames; it is about 3.5 miles long and 2.5 miles broad and is formed by Yantlet Creek running from the Medway to the Thames. The Creek was filled up, and had a road across it for 40 years until 1823, when the lord mayor ordered it to be again reopened, so as to give about eight feet nav ...

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The south of the Isle is an important industrial area. Until 1982 it was home to a major oil refinery. Construction of this facility for BP took from 1948 to 1952, and it suffered flooding almost immediately when the North Sea flood of 1953 breached the sea wall. The site is now part-occupied by Thamesport, the UK's third largest container port. The remainder is allocated for industrial and warehousing use under the Thames Gateway project. Next to the BP site is Grain power station, one of two on the Hoo Peninsula. (The second, Kingsn ...

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Gramani (Sanskrit) (from grama village)

The leader or chief of a village. Also a chief of the gandharvas. In the plural, an equivalent of yakshas.

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The project was not a success and the ferry service was withdrawn in 1901, and the pier fell into disuse. It was closed in 1951, and the 1.75 miles of line taken up. The site is now occupied by the industrial sprawl. From about 1912 a seaplane station was positioned at Grain by the Admiralty. From the beginning of World War I regular patrols were made along the Thames estuary from this station, as part of English channel defences. In 1914 Port Victoria became an Royal Navy air plane repair depot, adjacent to the station. Activities at ...

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Isle of Grain, Isle of Grain - The isle's history, Isle of Grain - The Isle today, Isle of Grain - Settlements, Isle of Grain - Port Victoria, Isle of Grain - Postscript

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Grain Valley is located at 39°0'31" North, 94°12'27" West (39.008733, -94.207465)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.5 km² (4.8 mi²). 12.4 km² (4.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.21% is water. ...

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Grain Valley Missouri, Grain Valley Missouri - Geography, Grain Valley Missouri - Demographics

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Whole grains are believed to be nutritionally superior to refined grains, richer in dietary fiber, antioxidants, protein (and in particular the amino acid lysine), dietary minerals (including magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and selenium), and vitamins (including niacin, vitamin B6, and vitamin E). Manufacturers are sometimes required by law to fortify refined grain products to make up for the loss of vitamins and minerals. The greater amount of dietary fiber, as much as four times that found in refined grains, is likely the most imp ...

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Whole grain, Whole grain - Health benefits, Whole grain - Snooping out Whole Wheat from White Wheat

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Although the term "crystallite" is more precise, the boundary between two crystallites is traditionally known as a grain boundary. The term "crystallite boundary" is rarely used, and the fact that powder grains are not attached to one another and so do not form boundaries helps to remove ambiguity in this case. Grain boundaries disrupt the motion of dislocations through a material; reducing crystallite size is therefore a common way to improve strength, often without any sacrifice in toughness. The high interfacial energy and r ...

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Crystallite, Crystallite - Grain boundaries

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Although the term "crystallite" is more precise, the boundary between two crystallites is traditionally known as a grain boundary. The term "crystallite boundary" is rarely used, and the fact that powder grains are not attached to one another, and so do not form boundaries, helps to remove ambiguity in this case. Grain boundaries disrupt the motion of dislocations through a material; reducing crystallite size is therefore a common way to improve strength, often without any sacrifice in toughness. The high interfacial energy and ...

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Crystallite, Crystallite - Grain boundaries

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When planing against the grain, the inevitable splinters ahead of the cutting tool originate below the cutting surface, resulting in a jagged finish, called tearout. Note that these diagrams and phrases apply to planing the wide face (flat grain) and/or long side (side grain) of a typical piece of lumber, which is cut so its wide face is along the grain. In other words, as part of the tree, the wide face was parallel to the pith and thus along (or parallel to) the direction of the dominant cells, or grain. Because of the nature of wood, planing the end grain of the board is physicall ...

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Planing wood generally results in splintering just ahead of the cutting tool. Whether this splintering occurs harmlessly above the cutting surface or unattractively below the cutting surface is largely a matter of cutting with the grain or against the grain, respectively. The grain referred to in these phrases is the side grain of the piece of wood being worked. When planing with the grain, the inevitable splinters ahead of the cutting tool rise above the cutting surface, rather than below. These splinters are shaved off when the cutting to ...

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How are the interstellar grains destroyed? There are some ultraviolet processes which lead to grain "explosions" (d'Hendecourt et al., 1985; Greenberg, 1976). Evans (1994) also describes evaporation, sputtering (when an atom or ion strikes the surface of a solid with enough momentum to eject atoms from it), and grain-grain collisions, which have a major influence on the grain size distribution, as well. These destructive processes happen in a variety of places. Some grains are destroyed in the supernovae/novae explosion (and then some ...

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Cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Introductory Material, Cosmic dust - Some bulk properties of cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Radiative properties of cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Dust grain formation, Cosmic dust - Dust grain destruction, Cosmic dust - Some dusty clouds in the universe

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The large grains start with the silicate particles forming in the atmospheres of cool stars, and carbon grains in the atmospheres of cool carbon stars. Stars, which have evolved off the main sequence, and which have entered the giant phase of their evolution, are a major source of dust grains in galaxies. How do astronomers know that that dust is formed in the envelopes of late-evolved stars? They know from their observations. An observed (infrared) 9.7 micrometre emission silicate signature for cool evolved (oxygen-rich giant) stars. ...

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The seeds of the two annual species are the ones most commonly harvested as grain. Native Americans harvested wild rice by canoeing into a stand of plants, and bending and beating the ripe grain heads with the canoe paddles, so as to thresh the seeds into the canoe. The Ojibwa call this plant "manoomin" or "good berry". Some seeds fell to the muddy bottom to overwinter and germinate in the spring. Wild rice and maize are the only cereal crops native to North America. It is a favourite food o ...

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Wild rice, Wild rice - Use as a grain, Wild rice - Use as a vegetable, Wild rice - Ornamental use, Wild rice - Cultural use

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Science of photography - Quantum efficiency. As is well known to communications engineers, light, like everything else, comes in particles. The energy of a particle (photon) is the frequency times Plank's constant. A fundamental property of any photographic method is how many particles it has to catch, on the average, for each one counted. This is a way of understanding the "grain" in film pictures. The chemistry limits the fraction of light particles that cause chemical change. To make the film sensitive, the silver compounds are in p ...

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Science of photography, Science of photography - Law of Reciprocity, Science of photography - Lenses, Science of photography - Focal length, Science of photography - Aperture, Science of photography - Bokeh and Depth of field, Science of photography - Motion blur, Science of photography - autofocus, Science of photography - workings of a typical manual camera system, Science of photography - Effects limiting resolution detail, Science of photography - Focus, Science of photography - Aberration, Science of photography - how electron overflow in CCDs can lead to blurring and fringing effects, Science of photography - Film Grain Resolution, Science of photography - Diffraction aperture limit, Science of photography - Contribution to noise grain, Science of photography - Quantum efficiency, Science of photography - Aliasing, Science of photography - Film, Science of photography - Developing, Science of photography - Stop-Bath & Fixer, Science of photography - Polaroids

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Cosmic dust is dust grains and agreggates of dust grains. These particles are irregularly-shaped with porosity ranging from fluffy to compact. The composition, size, and other properties depends on where the dust is found. General diffuse interstellar medium dust should be distinguished from dust grains in dense clouds, which should be distinguished from planetary rings dust, which should be distinguished from circumstellar dust, and so on. For example, grains in dense clouds have acquired a mantle of ice and the average dimens ...

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A dust particle interacts with electromagnetic radiation in a way that depends on its cross section, the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation, and on the nature of the grain: its refractive index, size, etc. The radiation process for an individual grain is called its emissivity, dependent on the grain's efficiency factor. Furthermore, we have to specify whether the emissivity process is extinction, scattering, or absorption. In the radiation emission curves, several important signatures id ...

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Planes are sometimes categorized as bench planes or block planes. Bench planes are characterized by a cutting iron bedded with the bevel facing down, attached to a chipbreaker. Block planes are characterized by a cutting iron bedded with the bevel up, and the absence of a chipbreaker. The block plane can be held with one hand and is used for general purpose stuff such as taking down a knot in the wood, smoothing up small pieces, making the end of a sawed board square and smooth ...

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One of the most successful manufacturers of planes is The Stanley Works of New Britain, Connecticut, USA. In 1843 Frederick Trent Stanley established Stanley's Bolt Manufactory in New Britain to manufacture door bolts and other hardware from wrought iron. Then in 1857 Frederick's cousin Henry Stanley followed his example and founded The Stanley Rule and Level Company of New Britain. The two companies merged in 1920, and the Stanley Rule and Level Company bec ...

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In parallel computing, granularity means the amount of computation in relation to communication, i.e., the ratio of computation to the amount of communication. "Fine-grain parallelism" means individual tasks are relatively small in terms of code size and execution time, "coarse grain" is the opposite. The smaller the granularity, the greater the potential for parallelism and hence speed-up but the greater the overheads of synchronisation and communication. (The ...

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Cosmic Dust refers to particles in space which are assemblages of a few molecules to tenth-millimeter-sized grains. Cosmic dust can be further distinguished by its astronomical location; for example: interplanetary dust, interstellar dust, comet dust, circumplanetary dust. This article covers bulk and radiative properties of cosmic dust, the dust particles' origins, end-fates, and specific locations in space. Historically, cosmic dust used to be an annoyance to astronomers because of the way that the dust obscures the object th ...

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Cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Introductory Material, Cosmic dust - Some bulk properties of cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Radiative properties of cosmic dust, Cosmic dust - Dust grain formation, Cosmic dust - Dust grain destruction, Cosmic dust - Some dusty clouds in the universe

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Grain and beans are stored in tall grain elevators, almost always at a rail head near the point of production. The grain is shipped to a final user in hopper cars. In the former Soviet Union, where harvest was poorly controlled, grain was often irradiated at the point of production to suppress mold and insects. In the U.S., threshing and drying is performed in the field, and transport is nearly sterile and in large containers that effectively suppress pest access, so irradiation is not required. At any given time ...

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Food storage, Food storage - Domestic food storage, Food storage - Storage facilities, Food storage - Grain, Food storage - Fruit, Food storage - Meat, Food storage - Fish and shellfish, Food storage - Use of stored food, Food storage - Commercial food storage

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