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• Sand casting — Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material. It is relatively cheap and sufficiently refractory even for steel foundry use. A suitable bonding agent (usually clay)… …   Wikipedia

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• Heat lightning — is a misnomer for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights, and to distinguish… …   Wikipedia

• sand|wich — «SAND wihch», noun, verb. –n. 1. two or more slices of bread with meat, jelly, cheese, or some other filling between them. 2. Figurative: »When used as the outer leaf of an insulating sandwich, it provides a membrane which gives fairly good… …   Useful english dictionary

• Sand bath — A sand bath is a common piece of laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated sand. It is used to provide even heating for another container, most often during a chemical reaction.A sand bath is most commonly used in conjunction… …   Wikipedia

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• sand bath — noun Etymology: sand (I) + bath 1. : a bath of sand in which laboratory vessels to be heated are partly immersed 2. : a shallow or deep pan usually of iron for holding the sand * * * sand bath noun 1. A bath in sand 2. A vessel for …   Useful english dictionary

• Sand Rat — Taxobox | name = Sand Rat status= secure fossil range = Late Miocene Recent regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia superfamilia = Muroidea familia = Muridae subfamilia = Gerbillinae genus = Psammomys species = P.… …   Wikipedia

• sand-martin — noun a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. But the red light was on the columns of the Parthenon, and the Greek women who were knitting their stockings and sometimes crying to a child to come and have the insects picked from its head… …   Wiktionary

• sand bath — noun A piece of laboratory equipment consisting of a container fitted with heated sand, that is used to provide an even source of heat …   Wiktionary