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  2. Brinell scale - Wikipedia

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    The "10" is the ball diameter in millimeters. The "3000" is the force in kilograms force. The hardness may also be shown as XXX HB YYD 2. The XXX is the force to apply (in kgf) on a material of type YY (5 for aluminum alloys, 10 for copper alloys, 30 for steels). Thus a typical steel hardness could be written: 250 HB 30D 2. It could be a ...

  3. Price fixing - Wikipedia

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    Price fixing is an anticompetitive agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand.

  4. USRA Light Santa Fe - Wikipedia

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    USRA Light Santa Fe. Factor of adh. The USRA Light Santa Fe was a USRA standard class of steam locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. These locomotives were of 2-10-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 1′E1′ in UIC ...

  5. Pennsylvania Railroad class J1 - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad class J1. Water cap. 124 scrapped, 6435 rumored to still extant but not confirmed. The PRR J1 was a class of 2-10-4 "Texas" type steam locomotives built between 1942 and 1944. The J1 had over 95,000 pounds-force (422.6 kN) of tractive effort, plus an additional 15,000 lbf (66.7 kN) if the booster engine was used.

  6. Price gouging - Wikipedia

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    Some state statutes that prohibit price gouging—including those of Alabama, [7] Florida, [8] Mississippi, [9] and Ohio [10] —prohibit price increases only once the President of the United States or the state's governor has declared a state of emergency in the impacted region. California permits emergency proclamations by officials, boards ...

  7. Mohs scale - Wikipedia

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    Mohs scale. The Mohs scale of mineral hardness ( / moʊz /) is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material. The scale was introduced in 1812 by the German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs, in his book "Versuch einer Elementar ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (probability) - Wikipedia

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    2.1×102: Probability of being dealt a three of a kind in poker 2.3×102: Gaussian distribution: probability of a value being more than 2 standard deviations from the mean on a specific side [17] 2.7×102: Probability of winning any prize in the Powerball with one ticket in 2006 3.3×102: Probability of a human giving birth to ...

  9. Union Pacific 5511 - Wikipedia

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    Union Pacific 5511 is a 2-10-2 “Santa Fe” type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1923 as part of the Union Pacific Railroad 's TTT-6 class. It is the last remaining member of its class and the only remaining 2-10-2 to be operated by the Union Pacific. The locomotive ran in revenue service until being withdrawn in 1956.