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Mineral wool

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Mineral wool is a general name for fiber materials that are formed by spinning or drawing molten minerals (or "synthetic minerals" such as slag and ceramics). [1]

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Alabuga Special Economic Zone

Alabuga (Алабуга) is a special economic zone of an industrial and production type located in a 20 km² area in the Yelabuzhsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Kama Innovative Territorial Production Cluster 10 km from Yelabuga, 25 km from Naberezhnye Chelny, 40 km from Nizhnekamsk and 210 km from the regional center — Kazan.

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Alice Backes

Alice Mayrine Backes (May 17, 1923 – March 15, 2007) was an American actress who performed on radio, television, and in films from the 1940s to the 1990s.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.

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Autoclave (industrial)

Industrial autoclaves are pressure vessels used to process parts and materials which require exposure to elevated pressure and temperature.

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İzocam

İzocam is a Turkish insulation material manufacturer.

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Backyard Farms

Backyard Farms is a Madison, Maine-based agricultural company specializing in massive greenhouses to produce vine-ripened tomatoes.

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Barra system

The Barra system is a passive solar building technology developed by Horazio Barra in Italy.

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Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

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Basalt fiber

Basalt fiber is a material made from extremely fine fibers of basalt, which is composed of the minerals plagioclase, pyroxene, and olivine.

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Bass trap

Bass traps are acoustic energy absorbers which are designed to damp low frequency sound energy with the goal of attaining a flatter low frequency (LF) room response by reducing LF resonances in rooms.

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Bærum Tunnel

The Bærum Tunnel (Bærumstunnelen) is a long double track railway tunnel in Bærum, Norway.

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Bill Porter (sound engineer)

Bill Porter (June 15, 1931 – July 7, 2010) was an American audio engineer who helped shape the Nashville sound and recorded such stars as Chet Atkins, Louis Armstrong, the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Barbara Streisand, Diana Ross, Ike & Tina Turner, Sammy Davis Jr., and Roy Orbison from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

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Blast furnace

A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.

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Bodovlje

Bodovlje (WodovljeLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 64. or WodouleIntelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 10.) is a village in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

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Body Block

The Body Block, also known as the Charles Body Block and as the Old Smith Arcade, is a historic mixed-use building located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Payne Avenue and E. 55th Street in the Goodrich–Kirtland Park neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

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Building insulation

Building insulation is any object in a building used as insulation for any purpose.

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Building insulation materials

Building insulation materials are the building materials which form the thermal envelope of a building or otherwise reduce heat transfer.

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Calcium silicate

Calcium silicate is the chemical compound Ca2SiO4, also known as calcium orthosilicate and is sometimes formulated as 2CaO·SiO2.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Causes of cancer

Cancer is a disease caused by genetic changes leading to uncontrolled cell growth and tumor formation.

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Cavity wall insulation

Cavity wall insulation is used to reduce heat loss through a cavity wall by filling the air space with material that inhibits heat transfer.

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Cellulose insulating material plant

Cellulose insulating material plants are used for the production of a natural building insulation material known as cellulose insulation.

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Cellulose insulation

The word cellulose comes from the French word cellule, for a living cell, and glucose, which is sugar.

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Ceramic art

Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay.

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Chalcots Estate

The Chalcots Estate is a council housing estate on Adelaide Road in Swiss Cottage in the London Borough of Camden.

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Charles Corydon Hall

Charles Corydon Hall (July 3, 1860 – August 19, 1935) was an American chemical engineer and industrialist.

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Chicago Metallic Corporation

Chicago Metallic Corporation (founded 1893) is a major global provider of architectural building products and service - including metal panels and ceiling system, suspended grid systems, and acoustical and sustainable ceiling panels.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Cutting (plant)

A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation.

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Deep water culture

Deep water culture (DWC) is a hydroponic, and so also aquaponic, method of plant production by means of suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient-rich, oxygenated water.

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Detuner (engine)

Detuner is a generic term for a jet engine test cell exhaust system muffler.

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Duct (flow)

Ducts are conduits or passages used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to deliver and remove air.

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Dynamic insulation

Dynamic insulation is a form of insulation where cool outside air flowing through the thermal insulation in the envelope of a building will pick up heat from the insulation fibres.

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Economy of Denmark

With 5,778,570 inhabitants (1 October 2017), Denmark has the 39th largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and 60th largest in the world measured by purchasing power parity (PPP).

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Electrical conduit

An electrical conduit is a tube used to protect and route electrical wiring in a building or structure.

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Energy efficiency in British housing

Domestic housing in the United Kingdom presents a possible opportunity for achieving the 20% overall cut in UK carbon dioxide emissions targeted by the Government for 2010.

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External wall insulation

An external wall insulation system (or EWIS) is a thermally insulated, protective, decorative exterior cladding procedure involving the use of expanded polystyrene, mineral wool, polyurethane foam or phenolic foam, topped off with a reinforced cement based, mineral or synthetic finish and plaster.

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Extremely high frequency

Extremely high frequency (EHF) is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) designation for the band of radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz).

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Fireproofing

Fireproofing is rendering something (structures, materials, etc.) resistant to fire, or incombustible; or material for use in making anything fire-proof.

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Firestop

A firestop is a passive fire protection system made up of various components and used to seal openings and joints in a fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly.

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Firestop pillow

Firestop pillows are passive fire protection items, used for firestopping holes in wall or floor assemblies required to have a fire-resistance rating.

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Friability

Friability, the condition of being friable, describes the tendency of a solid substance to break into smaller pieces under duress or contact, especially by rubbing.

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Glass wool

Glass wool is an insulating material made from fibres of glass arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool.

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Grand Forks, British Columbia

Grand Forks, population 4,049, is a city in the Boundary Country of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Grease duct

A grease duct is a duct that is specifically designed to vent grease-laden flammable vapors from commercial cooking equipment such as stoves, deep fryers, and woks to the outside of a building or mobile food preparation trailer.

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Green roof

A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.

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Growroom

A growroom (or grow room) is a room of any size where plants are grown under controlled conditions.

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Hedehusene

Hedehusene is a suburban town located on the rail line between Copenhagen and Roskilde in the Capital Region of Denmark.

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High-temperature mineral wool

High-temperature mineral wool (HTMW) is a type of mineral wool (a wool-like material made from mineral fibers), created for use as high-temperature insulation - usually for use in industrial furnaces and foundries - generally defined as being resistant to temperatures above 1000°C.

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HMT Aragon

HMT Aragon, originally RMS Aragon, was a transatlantic Royal Mail Ship that served as a troop ship in the First World War.

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Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent.

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Illinois Steel Company

The Illinois Steel Company was an American steel producer with five plants in Illinois and Wisconsin.

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Institute of Occupational Medicine

The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) was founded in 1969 by the National Coal Board (NCB) as an independent charity in the UK and retains this charitable purpose and status today.

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Insulation (list of insulation material)

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Insulation Council of Australia and New Zealand

The Insulation Council of Australia and New Zealand (ICANZ) is an industry trade group representing commercial, residential and industrial insulation suppliers in Australia and New Zealand.

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Jean Piccard

Jean Felix Piccard (January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland – January 28, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist.

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Joint (building)

A building joint is a junction where building elements meet without applying a static load from one element to another.

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Knauf

Knauf Gips KG is a multinational, family-owned company based in Iphofen, Germany, well known for drywall gypsum boards, founded in 1932.

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Knauf Insulation

Knauf Insulation is an international company owned by the Knauf family and is an important manufacturer of insulation products in the US and Europe.

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Limburg (Netherlands)

Limburg (Dutch and Limburgish: (Nederlands-)Limburg; Limbourg) is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands.

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List of fire-retardant materials

Fire-retardant materials should not be confused with fire-resistant materials.

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List of How It's Made episodes

How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel (now known as Discovery Science in Canada, and Science in the UK and US.) The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc.

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List of IARC Group 3 carcinogens

Substances, mixtures and exposure circumstances in this list have been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 3: The agent (mixture or exposure circumstance) is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans. This category is used most commonly for agents, mixtures and exposure circumstances for which the evidence of carcinogenicity is inadequate in humans and inadequate or limited in experimental animals.

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List of polyurethane applications

Polyurethane products have many uses.

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List of special economic zones

Several special economic zones (SEZs) have been established across Bangladesh since the 1980s.

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Living with the Land

Living with the Land (originally Listen to the Land) is a combined dark ride and greenhouse tour located within The Land pavilion which is part of Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World Resort at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

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Micro perforated plate

A micro perforated plate (MPP) is a device used to absorb sound, reducing its intensity.

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Mineral bonded wood wool board

Mineral bonded wood wool boards (WW boards) are building boards made of wood wool fibres, water and the binding agents cement, caustic magnesia and gypsum.

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Mining in Iran

Mining in Iran is underdeveloped, yet the country is one of the most important mineral producers in the world, ranked among 15 major mineral-rich countries, holding some 68 types of minerals, 37 billion tonnes of proven reserves and more than 57 billion tonnes of potential reserves worth $770 billion in 2014.

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Nitto Boseki

, known by its operating name Nittobo, is a Tokyo-based company mainly known by its textile and fiberglass products.

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Noise pollution

Sound pollution, also known as environmental noise or noise pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.

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Nutrient film technique

Nutrient film technique (NFT) is a hydroponic technique where in a very shallow stream of water containing all the dissolved nutrients required for plant growth is re-circulated past the bare roots of plants in a watertight gully, also known as channels.

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Oil shale

Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons, called shale oil (not to be confused with tight oil—crude oil occurring naturally in shales), can be produced.

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Oil shale in Estonia

Oil shale (põlevkivi) is a strategic energy resource that constitutes about 4% of Estonia's gross domestic product.

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Orgone

Orgone is a pseudo-scientific and spiritual concept described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force, originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich.

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Packing (firestopping)

Packing is the process and/or the materials used in filling both service penetrations and building joints with backer materials as approved components within a firestop.

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Passive hydroponics

Passive hydroponics, semi-hydroponics or passive subirrigation is a method of growing plants without soil, peat moss, or bark.

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Pele's hair

Pele's hair is a form of lava.

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Pipe insulation

Pipe Insulation is thermal or acoustic insulation used on pipework.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Pressurisation ductwork

Pressurisation duct work is a passive fire protection system.

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RCA Studio B

RCA Studio B is a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee built in 1956.

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Rigid panel

Rigid panel insulation is made from fibrous materials (fiberglass, rock and slag wool) or from plastic foam.

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Rockwool International

Rockwool International A/S (or AS), also known as the Rockwool Group, is a multinational manufacturer of mineral wool products headquartered in Hedehusene, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Sandwich panel

A sandwich panel is any structure made of three layers: a low-density core, and a thin skin-layer bonded to each side.

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Slag

Slag is the glass-like by-product left over after a desired metal has been separated (i.e., smelted) from its raw ore.

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Sleeve (construction)

In construction, a sleeve is used both by the electrical and mechanical trades to create a penetration.

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SMF

SMF may refer to.

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Sol–gel process

In materials science, the sol–gel process is a method for producing solid materials from small molecules.

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Special Economic Zones in Russia

The Special Economic Zones in Russia are established by the Russian government to attract foreign direct investment.

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SS Yelkenci

Yelkenci was a refrigerated cargo ship which was built in 1943 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) as Empire Camp.

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Steel wool

Steel wool, also known as iron wool, wire wool or wire sponge, is a bundle of very fine and flexible sharp-edged steel filaments.

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Stone mastic asphalt

Stone mastic asphalt (SMA), also called stone-matrix asphalt, was developed in Germany in the 1960s with the first SMA pavements being placed as in 1968 near Kiel.

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Substrate (biology)

In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.

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Thermal insulation

Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e. the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.

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Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.

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Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Troitsk (Тро́ицк) is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the southern Ural Mountains and approximately south of Chelyabinsk on the border with Kazakhstan.

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Troll (Discworld)

Trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, unlike the monstrous trolls of folklore and J. R. R. Tolkien, have been subverted into a moderately civilised race.

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Typha

Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.

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Urban resilience

The etymological roots of the word "resilience" stem from the Latin word resilio In the academic literature, the term tends to be malleable, enabling multidisciplinary collaboration on the topic.

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Vacuum insulated panel

A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) is a form of thermal insulation consisting of a gas-tight enclosure surrounding a rigid core, from which the air has been evacuated.

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Wool (disambiguation)

Wool is the fibre commonly produced from sheep Wool (the fiber) refers to one of the following.

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Wool insulation

Wool insulation is made from sheep wool fibres that are either mechanically held together or bonded using between 5% and 20% recycled polyester adhesive to form insulating batts, rolls and ropes.

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Zamil Industrial

Zamil Industrial Investment Co.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_wool

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