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airstream

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A flow or current of air.

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Austronesian languages, by contrast, may have the simplest sounds of any language family.Perhaps the most exotic sounds are clicks technically "non-pulmonic" consonants that do not use the airstream from the lungs for their articulation.

The compressed burning gas is released through the exhaust.Water is injected into the system to produce steam, providing a way of cooling the engine (which, in a moving machine, is another of the services provided by the airstream).

One type, called a ramjet, slows incoming air to subsonic speeds using a carefully shaped inlet to compress and thereby slow the airstream.

This leaves engineers with a big problem: injecting and igniting fuel in a supersonic airstream is like "lighting a match in a hurricane and keeping it lit," says Russell Cummings, a hypersonic-propulsion expert at California Polytechnic State University.One way to do it is to use fuel injectors that protrude, at an angle, into the supersonic airstream.

The Growler is able to keep its weapons charged up and humming by lowering special turbines into the airstream that rushes past the plane when it is flying.

This is known as a pulmonic airstream.

This is the glottalic airstream mechanism.

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The ultimate goal is to harvest the sun's energy directly by intercepting sunlight, rather than by waiting for that sunlight to stir up the atmosphere and sticking turbines in the resulting airstreams.Fortunately, inventors love that sort of problem.

Affected by the convergence of Indian Ocean and Atlantic airstreams, the Ruwenzori as a whole comprise the wettest and the cloudiest of the mountains, where moist conditions penetrate up to the peaks and about 80 inches (2,000 mm) of rain annually falls at 15,000 feet.

Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and Mount Elgon are affected by their position in relation to southeasterly and northeasterly airstreams.

I like the Altura Airstreams at evanscycles.com.

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