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A large municipality in the northwestern United States operates over 1,700 vehicles and over 3,000 pieces of motorized equipment ranging from riding lawn mowers to bulldozers.Oil changes constitute a major expense. For example, the 500 heavy duty trucks in its fleet previously had their oil changed every 2,500 miles at a cost of around $400 per cha..

Information on the elemental composition of various materials can be obtained using a variety of analytical methods, most often involving the destruction of matter. Complex substances formed as a result of the combination of chemical elements with each other, number in many hundreds of thousands. These complex substances have a wide variety of prop..

A vacuum is defined colloquially as the state encountered in a room at pressures below atmospheric pressure. These pressures can be generated by gases or vapors that are evenly distributed over the room.The standard definition of vacuum is “the state of a gas at which its pressure in a vessel and therefore its particle density is lower than that of..

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