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A closed plane figure with every point an equal distance from the center. A circle has the greatest area for its circumference of any enclosed shape.
Industry:Aviation
A highly explosive material made by treating cotton fibers with nitric and sulfuric acids. Guncotton is used in making the film base of nitrate dope.
Industry:Aviation
A large block of metal that was molded as it was poured from the furnace. Ingots are further processed into sheets, bars, tubes, or structural beams.
Industry:Aviation
The time allowed an epoxy or polyurethane material between its initial mixing and its application. This time allows the materials to begin their cure.
Industry:Aviation
Special cutting pliers that resemble diagonal cutters except that the jaws are ground in such a way that they cut the rivet shank, or stem, off square.
Industry:Aviation
The various components of a hydrocarbon fuel that are separated by boiling them off at different temperatures in the process of fractional distillation.
Industry:Aviation
A strong, heavy plate used in a multiple-disk brake. The pressure plate receives the force from the brake cylinders and transmits this force to the disks.
Industry:Aviation
A small digital computer, often built into an instrument or control device that contains a built-in program that causes it to perform a specific function.
Industry:Aviation
A special type of solid-state diode designed to have a specific breakdown voltage and to operate with current flowing through it in its reverse direction.
Industry:Aviation
An electric or pneumatic motor that drives a chuck that holds a twist drill. The best drill motors produce high torque, and their speed can be controlled.
Industry:Aviation
