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  2. Thermal power station - Wikipedia

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    Thermal power station. A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a steam turbine connected to an electrical generator.

  3. Counterfeit money - Wikipedia

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    Counterfeit money is currency produced outside of the legal sanction of a state or government, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world. The business of counterfeiting money is ...

  4. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    Three Mile Island in 2019, prior to shutdown. /  40.15389°N 76.72472°W  / 40.15389; -76.72472. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (commonly abbreviated as TMI) is a closed nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island [a] in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by ...

  5. Reddy Kilowatt - Wikipedia

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    Demand for electric power jumped 14 per cent between 1946 and 1947 alone. An important driver was that, even as demand for electrical energy increased, the cost of energy continued to decline. When Reddy was created in the mid-1920s, a kilowatt-hour cost 55 cents (in constant 1992 dollars).

  6. Key duplication - Wikipedia

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    Key duplication. Process of advanced security key copying on professional duplicator. Key duplication refers to the process of creating a key based on an existing key. Key cutting is the primary method of key duplication: a flat key is fitted into a vise in a machine, with a blank attached to a parallel vise, and the original key is moved along ...

  7. Ceylon Electricity Board - Wikipedia

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    The Ceylon Electricity Board - CEB ( Sinhala: ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලය - ලංවිම, romanized: Lankā Vidulibala Mandalaya - Lanwima; Tamil: இலங்கை மின்சார சபை - இமிச ), is the largest electricity company in Sri Lanka. With a market share of nearly 100%, it controls ...

  8. List of duplicating processes - Wikipedia

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    Letterpress printing (via printing press) Gelatin methods (also indirect method ) Hectograph. Collography, autocopyist. Chromograph, Copygraph, Polygraph. Flexography. Spirit duplicator (also Rexograph, Ditto machine, Banda machine, or Roneo) Lithographic processes. Transfer lithography.

  9. Disallowance and reservation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Disallowance and reservation are historical constitutional powers in Canada that act as a mechanism to delay or overrule legislation passed by Parliament or a provincial legislature. In contemporary Canadian history, disallowance is an authority granted to the governor general in council (federal cabinet) to invalidate an act (also called ...