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    In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long...
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    A retort pouch or retortable pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging...
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    In chemistry, a retort stand, also called a clamp stand, a ring stand, or a support stand, is a piece of scientific equipment intended to support other...
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  • The Pumpherston retort (also known as the Bryson retort) was a type of oil-shale retort used in Britain at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century...
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  • Retort is a community of about forty writers, teachers, artists, and activists, all self-styled opponents of capital and empire, which has been based for...
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  • The gas combustion retort process (also referred as gas-combustion retorting process) was an above-ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction...
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  • Petrosix (redirect from Petrosix retort)
    Petrosix is the world's largest surface oil shale pyrolysis retort with an 11 metres (36 ft) diameter vertical shaft kiln, operational since 1992. It is...
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  • process, the New Jersey Zinc continuous vertical-retort process, and the Belgian-type horizontal retort process. This process was developed by the St. Joseph...
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  • writer and activist best known for publishing the anarchist periodical Retort with Dachine Rainer. Cantine was born on February 14, 1916, and raised in...
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    Oil Retort House is a Grade II listed building in Kilve, Somerset, United Kingdom. In 1924, the Shalime Company was formed to exploit shale oil and blue...
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    "indirectly fired" retort bench. The early "directly fired" retort bench consisted of retorts suspended over a coke fire, which heated the retorts and drove the...
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  • airstrikes were part of the PAF military operation codenamed Operation Swift Retort and were conducted in retaliation to the Indian Air Force (IAF) airstrike...
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  • Fushun process (redirect from Fushun retort)
    The Fushun process is an above-ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction. It is named after the main production site of Fushun, Liaoning province...
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    A fluidized bed reactor (FBR) is a type of reactor device that can be used to carry out a variety of multiphase chemical reactions. In this type of reactor...
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    Brazil, Canada, and the United States. The 1894 invention of the Pumpherston retort, which was much less reliant on coal heat than its predecessors, marked...
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    Cooking low-acid food items in a retortable pouch is a relatively new process, with the first commercial use of such retort pouches found in Italy in 1960...
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  • Retorsion (redirect from Retortion)
    Retorsion (from French: rétorsion, from Latin: retortus, influenced by Late Latin, 1585–1595, torsi, a twisting, wringing it), a term used in international...
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  • process is an above ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction. The Kiviter process is based on the earlier vertical retort technology (Pintsch's...
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  • Report, Cadenhead registered drudge.com in 1998 and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to what he perceived to be the right-leaning Drudge...
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  • Germany for shale oil production. In Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, two retorts for liquefaction of lignite were in operation from 1963 to 1968. The capacity...
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  • Union process (redirect from Union retort)
    of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil. The process used a vertical retort where heating causes decomposition of oil shale into shale oil, oil shale...
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  • ou la Cornue infernale, released in the United States as The Mysterious Retort and in Britain as The Alchemist and the Demon, is a 1906 French silent trick...
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  • The Nevada–Texas–Utah retort process (also known as NTU, Dundas–Howes or Rexco process) was an above-ground shale oil extraction technology to produce...
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    from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to insult without retort. This passage is variously interpreted as accepting one's predicament, commanding...
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    contains a retort pouch of precooked rice, a retort pouch of chicken curry, a pouch date pudding, and another accessory pack. Dinner has a retort pouch of...
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    jars or Mason jars, and boiling the containers to sterilize the contents. Retort pouches involve heat processing the food in sterilized heat-stable flexible...
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  • oil. The process heats oil shale in a sealed horizontal segmented vessel (retort) causing its decomposition into shale oil, oil shale gas and spent residue...
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    Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium...
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  • Okamoto) Scum's Wish (クズの本懐) (2012–2017) Mega Heart (めがはーと) (2013–2017) Retort Pouch! (レトルトパウチ!) (2014–2018) Isshō Sukitte Yuttajan (一生好きってゆったじゃん) (2018–2020...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In fencing, a riposte (French for "retort") is an offensive action with the intent of hitting one's opponent made...
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