- water-attracting
- water-attracting BM wasseranziehend, hygroskopisch
English-German dictionary of Architecture and Construction. 2013.
English-German dictionary of Architecture and Construction. 2013.
Lock (water transport) — Canal lock and lock keeper s cottage on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal at Marsworth in Hertfordshire, England … Wikipedia
Deep water coral — Table coral, which can live in deep water (in this picture, it is in shallow, warm water) The habitat of deep water corals, also known as cold water corals, extends to deeper, darker parts of the oceans than tropical corals, ranging from near the … Wikipedia
Kielder Water — Infobox lake lake name = Kielder Reservoir image lake = KielderDam.jpg caption lake = Kielder Dam in 2007 image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Northumberland coords = coord|55|11|N|2|30|W|region:GB… … Wikipedia
Kelvin water dropper — The Kelvin water dropper, [Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), On a self acting apparatus for multiplying and maintaining electric charges, with applications to illustrate the voltaic theory, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol. 16,… … Wikipedia
Washburn Park Water Tower — Infobox nrhp | name =Washburn Park Water Tower nrhp type = caption =The Washburn Park Water Tower is one of 3 stone water towers built in Minneapolis during the early 20th Century. The others are Kenwood Park Water Tower, just west of downtown,… … Wikipedia
protein — proteinaceous /proh tee nay sheuhs, tee i nay /, proteinic, proteinous, adj. /proh teen, tee in/, n. 1. Biochem. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the… … Universalium
detergent — /di terr jeuhnt/, n. 1. any of a group of synthetic, organic, liquid or water soluble cleaning agents that, unlike soap, are not prepared from fats and oils, are not inactivated by hard water, and have wetting agent and emulsifying agent… … Universalium
digestive system, human — Introduction the system used in the human body for the process of digestion. The human digestive system consists primarily of the digestive tract (alimentary canal), or the series of structures and organs through which food and liquids pass… … Universalium
salt — salt1 saltlike, adj. /sawlt/, n. 1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc. 2. table salt mixed with a particular herb or… … Universalium
SALT — /sawlt/, n. See Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. * * * I Chemical compound formed when the hydrogen of an acid is replaced by a metal or its equivalent, such as ammonium (NH4). Typically, an acid and a base react to form a salt and water. Most… … Universalium
mineral processing — or ore dressing Mechanical treatment of crude ores to separate the valuable minerals. Mineral processing was at first applied only to ores of precious metals but later came to be used to recover other metals and nonmetallic minerals. It is also… … Universalium