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#85637
11/04/2002 6:54 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
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Quite a while ago we discussed this word quite extensively. I'm still disgusted with OED talking about "negative ullage". But here's a new use of it, by NASA. You might want to read whole episode in Engines of Our Ingenuity 934.
"That means containers need complex baffles that let surface tension position the liquids. NASA uses the old English word ullage to describe that process. Ullage once meant the empty space in a barrel of wine. Now we use it for the empty space in a barrel of liquid oxygen. "
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