Sump Sentence Examples

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  • Drainage channels are provided, usually along the main haulage roads, by which the water flows to a sump excavated at the pump shaft.

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  • When mine water is acid the working parts of the pump must be lined with or made of bronze or other non-corrosive material; or the acid may be neutralized by adding lime in the sump.

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  • This method is rarely practised except by the rollers of zinc. A certain amount of refined zinc can be dipped from the furnace; a further amount, nearly free from iron, can be liquated out of the ingots cast from the bottom of the bath in a subsequent slow remelting, and it is sometimes possible to eliminate a zinciferous lead which collects in the sump of the furnace.

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  • The lower reaches have streams and sump bypasses which are still going.

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  • Cars using slick tires must be fitted with a dry sump.

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  • What is a radon sump in a new building?

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  • The sump is then connected to the Old Main Line by a brick culvert that runs under the locks.

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  • Once through the sump, declared a real hoot by all concerned, we had a quick crawl around the large chambers.

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  • In some small houses, even a large sump has proved inadequate.

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  • This allowed the drive pinion to fall into the sump causing a large fracture through which the oil escaped.

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  • Use a sharp Stanley knife to cut slits in the liner across the internal width of the drain sump.

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  • Simon Brooks dived the upstream sump at the end of the final passage.

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  • In my minds eye the name Olly's perched sump ' were already written on the survey.

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  • One interesting prospect is the possibility of getting into a high level in Muxa, to bypass the sump.

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  • It took a dozen cavers about eight hours to drain the sump of water.

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  • Alan Clegg was drowned in Lancaster Hole downstream sump.

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  • A third way on from the small chamber is a small tubular passage which emerges in a larger boulder chamber with a static sump.

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  • Eventually seven cavers gathered at the terminal sump to watch Rick assemble his swag.

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  • The water emerges from a low crawl over boulders to the left which can be followed for 60m to an inlet sump.

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  • The terminal sump is in the pool, which contains a muddy ledge on the right hand side.

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  • A bug hunting trip as far as the mud sump.

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  • Upstream through beautiful blue dolly tubs, a series of shallow lakes led to a wide sump pool held back by extensive gravel banks.

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  • Where the water does not accumulate very rapidly it is a common practice to allow it to collect in a pit or sump below the working bottom of the shaft, and to draw it off in a water tub or" hoppet "by the main engine, when the latter is not employed in raising coal.

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  • Cnoc nan Uamh - Simon Brooks with support from Fraser Simpson and John Heathcote dug his way into the static sump in May.

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  • Having visited the sump, it 's now a stomp up the Master Cave.

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  • Reached sump via 75 ' pitch down boulder slope.

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  • The Pegaso engine uses Aprilia 's acclaimed dry sump lubrication system.

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  • We searched the main chamber for a possible sump bypass.

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  • The sump plug will be missing, believed dead.

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  • The sump pool in Wilf Taylor 's Passage is usually static.

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  • Many Hotpoint washing machines have a filter inside the sump hose which gets blocked.

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  • All work simultaneously, each raising the water to a tank or sump above, whence it is taken by the next pump of the system, and finally discharged at the surface.

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  • Flooding can often be solved by installing a sump pump.

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