Word Finder - pneumatic

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A vehicle, such as a bicycle, whose wheels are fitted with pneumatic tyres.

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(gnosticism) In the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man, the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).

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Of, relating to, or resembling air or other gases

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Of or relating to pneumatics

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Powered by, or filled with, compressed air

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a pneumatic instrument or engine

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Having cavities filled with air

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pneumatic cells or bones

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Spiritual; of or relating to the pneuma

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(of a woman) well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy

Before the development of pneumatic chemistry, air was regarded as a distinct chemical unit or element.

Barker lever or charge pneumatic actions preserve some of the detail.

The height adjustment of the standard boom (optional extra) is aided by a pneumatic cylinder, which eases handling.

The hind limbs are very strong; the massive femur has a large pneumatic foramen; the tibia has a bony bridge on the anterior surface of the lower portion, a character in which the moas agree only with Apteryx amongst the other Ratitae.

A pneumatic trough is simply a basin containing water or some other liquid used for collecting gases.

How he could snooze with a noise like a pneumatic drill going on, shows how good his mental powers were.

The main source of dust was from pneumatic hammers and at the time there was no known way of protecting against this.

It features swivel wheel chassis and high performance pneumatic tires with deep treads.

Learning Toys For Infants The cabritos never pneumatic to play with the bucket that learns.

Dirty, residue rich or resinous oil exerts a harmful effect on pneumatic components.

There 's a choice of three point linkage or hitched drive frame with pneumatic tires.

Many office chairs have a part called the gas cylinder which is part of the pneumatic lift system.

You can do this with a manual chisel, but if you have a large area you may opt to use an air compressor tool with a pneumatic chisel.

His works included treatises on pneumatic chemistry (1821-1825) and the chemistry of fermentation (1822).

With the development of analytical and especially of pneumatic chemistry, the air was recognized not to be one homogeneous substance, as was long supposed, and different "airs," or gases, came to be distinguished.

The recovered methanol will be cooled by the exhaust air from the pneumatic valves.

When a filter is in use this should be lowered by removing compressed air from the pneumatic pistons.

When using pneumatic hammers a small drop-off in air pressure can lead to dramatic reductions capacity.

Dunlop was able, despite this, to patent his own design as it was a rubber pneumatic tire with a rim and valves.

How does the sacristan come back to life to kill after he has put the pneumatic drill through his chest?

A new and pneumatic female sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie, tackles murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life.

The lower end is bent into the shape of a hook, and dips into a pneumatic trough.

Pneumatic Switch Kit This innovative kit enables you to turn squashy rubber toys into switches.

This is a form letter sent out to dealers telling of the new pneumatic tires wagons.

Depending on which gun you buy, you may need additional extension cords for the electric guns or the air compressor if you get the pneumatic gun.

Tires evolved from the earlier ones made of metal to solid rubber to pneumatic.

Give an accessory basket - Stock it with items like rabbit or pneumatic corkscrews, stemless wine glasses and wine glass charms.

Some otoscopes (called pneumatic otoscopes) can deliver a small puff of air to the eardrum to see if the eardrum will vibrate (which is normal).

If the whole congregation be talking with tongues all at once, and an unbeliever or one with no experience of pneumatic gifts come in, what will he think, asks Paul.

This machine reproduces a copy of the original transmitting slip, which can be passed on to any other Wheatstone circuit or can be run through a " Creed printer," which is a pneumatic machine actuating a typewriter by means of valves.

The femur often possesses a well visible pneumatic foramen on the median side of the proximal end of its shaft.

On the assumption of uniform pressure up the bore, practically realizable in a Zalinski pneumatic dynamite gun, the pressure-curve would be the straight line HK of fig.

In the pneumatic power-transmitter the motion of one piston if transmitted to another at a distance by means of a mass of air contained in two cylinders and an intervening tube.

By the latter he was recommended to Dr Thomas Beddoes, who was in 1798 establishing his Medical Pneumatic Institution at Bristol for investigating the medicinal properties of various gases.

By 1912 the organ had become almost unplayable and the electric action was replaced by Lewis with tubular pneumatic.

The final product is transported to the 50 ton capacity finished product silo by a dense phase pneumatic conveying system.

It's versatility eliminates the need for expensive high maintenance pneumatic or electric machinery.

On exhaust pneumatic, electro-pneumatic and direct electric much of it is lost.

The " Pneumatic " Gospel comes thus specially to emphasize certain central historical facts; and, the most explicitly institutional and sacramental of the four, to proclaim the most universalistic and developmental of all Biblical sayings.

Pneumatic otoscope-An otoscope that can also produce a small puff of air that vibrates the eardrum.

Kaleida. "How Helpful is Pneumatic Otoscopy in Improving Diagnostic Accuracy?"

Its 10-inch pneumatic tires will give you a smooth ride, making the twists and turns of your adventure that much more fun.

Heating spirits of hartshorn, he was able to collect "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia), again because he was using mercury in his pneumatic trough; then, trying what would happen if he passed electric sparks through the gas, he decomposed it into nitrogen and hydrogen, and "having a notion" that mixed with hydrochloric acid gas it would produce a "neutral air," perhaps much the same as common air, he synthesized sal ammoniac. Dephlogisticated air (oxygen) he prepared in August 1774 by heating red oxide of mercury with a burning-glass, and he found that in it a candle burnt with a remarkably vigorous flame and mice lived well.

About 1777 or 1778 he resumed his pneumatic inquiries, though he published nothing on the subject till 1783.

The new ones are built of steel, operated by steam or electricity, protected from fire by pneumatic water-pipes, and have complete machinery for drying and scouring the wheat whenever it is necessary.

The historical development of the chemistry of gases - pneumatic chemistry - is treated in the article Chemistry; the technical analysis of gaseous mixtures is treated below under Gas Analysis.

One of his first discoveries at the Pneumatic Institution on the 9th of April 17 9 9 was that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is perfectly respirable, and he narrates that on the next day he became "absolutely intoxicated" through breathing sixteen quarts of it for "near seven minutes."

This discovery brought both him and the Pneumatic Institution into prominence.

He distinguishes a threefold sense of scripture, a grammaticohistorical, a moral and a pneumatic - the last being the proper and highest sense.

But, on the ground of their air-bladder being closed, or deprived of a pneumatic duct communicating with the digestive canal, such as is characteristic of the Malacopterygians, they were removed from them and placed with the flat-fishes, or Pleuronectidae, in a suborder Anacanthini, regarded as intermediate in position between the Acanthopterygians, or spiny-finned fishes, and the Malacopterygians.