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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread ullage #85637 11/04/2002 6:54 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 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. " Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: ullage #85638 11/04/2002 7:31 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park to see something similar, look at the Pilot liquid ink pen.. it too has a series of baffles, that keep the liquid ink moving from the barrel to the point Pilot pens are well known for writing for a long time even against gravity) and yet keep the pen from leaking the liquid ink. these are very similar to the kind of baffles uses to keep liquid fuel in fuel tanks moving, even when there is no gravity to feed it. (the example is also in the Engines of our Ingenuity text.) here is a link to the index http://www.uh.edu/engines/epiindex.htm my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,281 Members9,208 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery, Forix Richard 9,208 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 21 A C Bowden 7 JerryC 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,136 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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