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Sprinkler

A sprinkler is a device used for the distribution of water from plumbing pipes, by spraying it into the air. Sprinklers have two main purposes: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 159 KB)Sprinkler Taken by User:Fir0002 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 159 KB)Sprinkler Taken by User:Fir0002 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A Device can be taken to mean: an electrical device designed to carry power, but not use it. ... This page deals with mathematical distributions. ... Water (from the Old English word wÃ¦ter) is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known also as the most universal solvent. ... Plumbing, from the Latin for lead (plumbum), is the trade of working with pipes for water, drainage and natural gas. ... The word pipe can refer to: The basic cylindrical pipe shape a tubular man-made channel, generally round in cross section, in steel or concrete for transporting or guiding a fluid substance see plumbing and pipeline transport used in construction as column, truss element or space frame in mechanical engineering... Spray is a 21st century synthpop duo from England, starring Jenny McLaren and Ricardo Autobahn. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

irrigation sprinklers for irrigation of lawns or crops
fire sprinklers for fire suppression within buildings

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Categories: Disambiguation Irrigation Sprinklers are used in farms to help crops and other things grow if there is a lack of rainfall. ... Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ... A typical lawn A lawn sprinkler A lawn is an area of land planted with grass and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at an even low height. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The term sprinkler system may also refer to a type of irrigation system. ... Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ...

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Gottschalk Sprinkler (0 words)
	In principle, a sprinkler installation consists of a circuit of connected sprinkler heads, joined by an alarm unit to the water supply.
	The alarm unit consists of a valve in the main water pipe which opens when the pressure on the inflow side of the valve is greater than that in the sprinkler circuit.
	A deluge system consists of the sprinkler circuit with open sprinkler heads, which are normally connected by control and alarm valves to the water supply.

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