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Aflex has been trying to introduce their patented externally convoluted, internally smooth bore hoses into the Aerospace sector for several years.
Flexibility and smoothbore: The PTFE liner is of a unique form with external convolutions to provide excellent flexibility, but a smoothbore to provide excellent flow and minimal pressure loss for a given size.
Aflex’s externally convoluted,
The Nooalf English-based international spelling system is a 100% phonetic system that can be learned within a month by children using the available picture/letter/sound charts. Literate adults can already read Nooalf spelling since it looks similar enough to traditional spelling in English, Spanish, Italian, German and many other languages that use the Roman alphabet.
All of the major causes of death and debilitating conditions, including which heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, premature birth and more have been linked to oral health and more specifically gum disease (inflammation and gingivitis).
The single greatest barrier to escaping poverty in Africa is the lack of roads.
Over 600 million people, living on less than $1.25 per day, grow the food they eat and if possible they grow extra crops to pay for clothes, schooling, medical expenses and simple hardware such as hoes, buckets and cooking pots. The lack of decent roads,
It's a very unique project, the idea for which came from a disc spinning on string, with which almost all of us have played in our childhood. In this project a combination of three gears are used, arranged so that they can be rotated at very high RPM with very high torque.
During construction so much laborious work is done to transfer bricks, cement, soil etc to higher floors. And this process requires so many workers at every site and even present elevators used for this purpose are very costly and are very time consuming to install.
A FRESH IDEA
The current method of extraction of material from a flexible tube (be it toothpaste, cosmetic products, food products, etc.) is to apply pressure to the flexible tube so at to push the material towards the opening in the tube. This pressure also results in some of the material inevitably going in the opposite direction,
Many consumer products are generating vibrations during their operation. For example a bean to cup coffee machine, a kitchen hood, a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner or a DVD projector. Often these vibrations cause noise emissions, e.g. if sound-emitting panels are excited.
Extreme advances in science and technology have opened up unlimited possibilities for development and creation of new products.
Enthusiasts and Hobbyists generally while working with electronics face a common problem to test their circuit designs, which is getting a right power source which could power their system.
And we try to get batteries and try to combine them to get the right supply,
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