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• Tankage — Tank age, n. 1. The act or process of putting or storing in tanks. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. Fees charged for storage in tanks. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. (Agric.) Waste matter… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• tankage — noun Date: 1866 1. a. the aggregate of tanks required for a purpose b. the capacity or contents of a tank 2. dried animal residues usually freed from the fat and gelatin and used as fertilizer and feedstuff 3. the act or process of putting or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• tankage — /tang kij/, n. 1. the capacity of a tank or tanks. 2. the act or process of storing liquid in a tank. 3. the fee charged for such storage. 4. the residue from tanks in which carcasses and other offal have been steamed and the fat has been… …   Universalium

• tankage — tank•age [[t]ˈtæŋ kɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) the capacity of a tank or tanks 2) the act or process of storing liquid in a tank 3) the fee for such storage 4) the residue from tanks in which animal carcasses have been steamed and the fat rendered, used as a… …   From formal English to slang

• tankage — /ˈtænkɪdʒ/ (say tankij) noun 1. the capacity of a tank or tanks. 2. the act or process of storing liquid in a tank. 3. the price charged for this. 4. British the residue from tanks in which carcases and other offal have been steamed and the fat… …  

• petroleum refining — Introduction  conversion of crude oil into useful products. History Distillation of kerosene and naphtha       The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859. Prior to… …   Universalium

• Rocket propellant — is mass that is stored, usually in some form of propellant tank, prior to being used as the propulsive mass that is ejected from a rocket engine in the form of a fluid jet to produce thrust.Chemical rocket propellants are most commonly used,… …   Wikipedia

• Bipropellant rocket — A bipropellant rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses two propellants (very often liquid propellants) which are kept separately prior to reacting to form a hot gas to be used for propulsion.In contrast, most solid rockets have single solid… …   Wikipedia

• Liquid rocket — A liquid rocket is a rocket with an engine that uses propellants in liquid form. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume and hence the mass of the tanks to be relatively low, resulting in a high mass ratio.… …   Wikipedia

• Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …   Wikipedia

• Scramjet — Part of a series on Aircraft propulsion Shaft engines (to drive pr …   Wikipedia