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  2. Pilot light - Wikipedia

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    A pilot light is a small gas flame, usually natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, which serves as an ignition source for a more powerful gas burner. Originally a pilot light was kept permanently alight, but this wastes gas. Now it is more common to light a burner electrically, but gas pilot lights are still used when a high energy ignition ...

  3. Rheem Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.rheem.com. Rheem Manufacturing Company is an American privately held manufacturer that produces residential and commercial water heaters and boilers, as well as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The company also produces and sells products under the Ruud brand name.

  4. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    Foucault used this apparatus to measure the speed of light in air versus water, based on a suggestion by François Arago. [107] Today, using oscilloscopes with time resolutions of less than one nanosecond, the speed of light can be directly measured by timing the delay of a light pulse from a laser or an LED reflected from a mirror. This method ...

  5. Tankless water heating - Wikipedia

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    Gas water heaters have an exhaust vent or one to two exhaust pipes on the top, and still require electric power for electronics, sensing and ignition. A three-phase, 21 kW, 400-volt tankless water heater in Europe, with new European color coding for three-phase power. There are also heaters that use several single-phase circuits instead.

  6. Raycom Sports - Wikipedia

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    Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina –based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Television. It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications which made them partners on the main Atlantic Coast Conference ...

  7. Foucault's measurements of the speed of light - Wikipedia

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    In 1850, Léon Foucault measured the relative speeds of light in air and water. The experiment was proposed by Arago, who wrote, Two radiating points placed one near the other and on the same vertical, shine instantly in front of a rotating mirror. The rays from the upper point reach this mirror only by passing through a tube filled with water ...

  8. A. O. Smith - Wikipedia

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    www.aosmith.com. A. O. Smith Corporation is an American manufacturer of both residential and commercial water heaters and boilers, and the largest manufacturer and marketer of water heaters in North America. It also supplies water treatment and water purification products in the Asian market. [6] The company has 27 locations worldwide ...

  9. I grew up in Paris. Here are the 12 biggest mistakes I see ...

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    They sell Mother's Day cakes and Easter chocolates. If you happen to be in Paris for Epiphany in January, try a galette de rois, which is a traditional round cake. Go to the famous museums, but ...