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Anthracite is characterized as the highest rank of coal used primarily for residential and commercial space heating. It is a hard, brittle, and black lustrous coal, often referred to as hard coal, containing a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matter.
Air fresheners is a term used to which work in one of the following four ways: by interfering with your ability to smell by way of a nerve-deadening agent; by coating your nasal passages with an undetectable oil film; by covering up one smell with another; and (rarely) by breaking down the offensive odor.
The manila plant or abaca fibre is described as a
vegetable leaf fiber derived from the Musa textilis plant that is cultivated in the Philippines, but is also found, in smaller amounts, in Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia and Costa Rica, where its long stalks and leaves are harvested for paper production.
Aid is a general term used to denote:
1. Help or something that helps, as in hearing aid or crunches;
2. Assistance as in financial aid to developing countries or financial aid to deserving poor kids
Air is a general term which can mean, among others:
1. The mixture of gases that make up the atmosphere ; 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen with the balance consisting of smaller amounts of gases including argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, and other gases required for breathing;
Deutsch: Luft- und Raumfahrt / Español: Aeroespacial / Português: Aeroespacial / Français: Aérospatiale / Italiano: Aeronautico /
Aerospace may refer to :
1. Of or pertaining to both the earth's atmosphere and space, as in aerospace industries.
Aerial is defined as a device used to receive or transmit radio waves. It refers to the wire, fixed or trailing, used for radio reception and transmission from aircraft. Alternatively called an antenna.