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The value or purchasing power of a dollar in a specified year carried forward or backward.
Industry:Energy
The value or purchasing power of a dollar that has not been reduced to a common basis of constant purchasing power, but instead reflects anticipated future inflation; when used in computations the assumed inflation rate must be stated.
Industry:Energy
The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths from 0.4 to 0.76 microns
Industry:Energy
The voltage developed across a cell by the current flow through the resistance of the cell.
Industry:Energy
The volume of a unit weight of a substance at a specific temperature and pressure.
Industry:Energy
The water content of a substance (a solid fuel) as measured under specified conditions being the: Dry Basis, which equals the weight of the wet sample minus the weight of a (bone) dry sample divided by the weight of the dry sample times 100 (to get percent); Wet Basis, which is equal to the weight of the wet sample minus the weight of the dry sample divided by the weight of the wet sample times 100.
Industry:Energy
The water that is forced into a boiler to take the place of that which is evaporated in the generation of steam.
Industry:Energy
The weight of a material per unit of volume compared to the weight of the same volume of water.
Industry:Energy
The weight of oxygen taken up mainly as a result of the oxidation of the constituents of a sample of water by biological action; expressed as the number of parts per million of oxygen taken up by the sample from water originally saturated with air, usually over a period of five days at 20 degrees centigrade. A standard means of estimating the degree of contamination of water.
Industry:Energy
