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    Weighing scale (redirect from Balance scale)
    Britain to Mesopotamia. The balance (also balance scale, beam balance and laboratory balance) was the first mass measuring instrument invented. In its traditional...
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    A Westphal balance (also known as a Mohr balance) is a scientific instrument used to measure the density of liquids. Mohr-Westphal balance, Virtual Museum...
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  • The principal balance, in regard to a mortgage, loan, or other instrument of debt, is the amount due and owed to satisfy the payoff of an underlying obligation...
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    A Kibble balance is an electromechanical measuring instrument that measures the weight of a test object very precisely by the electric current and voltage...
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    Joseph Black, a Scottish chemist and physicist. A Triple beam balance is an instrument used to measure mass very precisely. The device has reading error...
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  • Off-balance-sheet issues IFRS 9 – Accounting standard titled "Financial Instruments" IFRS 7 – Accounting standard titled "Financial Instruments: Disclosures"...
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    The triple beam balance is an instrument used to measure weight very precisely. Such devices typically have a reading error of ±0.05 grams. Its name refers...
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    sometime before 1783 by geologist John Michell, who constructed a torsion balance apparatus for it. However, Michell died in 1793 without completing the...
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  • November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet...
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    determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would...
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    In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference...
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    the fiber balances the applied force. Then the magnitude of the force is proportional to the angle of the bar. The sensitivity of the instrument comes from...
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    A measuring instrument is a device to measure a physical quantity. In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity...
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    The ampere balance (also current balance or Kelvin balance) is an electromechanical apparatus used for the precise measurement of the SI unit of electric...
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    electromagnet, the Gouy balance is a stationary instrument permanently set up on a bench. The apparatus is often placed on a marble balance table in a non-ventilated...
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  • determining the equality of ratios. For example, if, on a balance instrument, object A balances two identical objects B, then one can say that A is twice...
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  • Performance class l Performance class k Performance class h Mass and balance Instruments and equipment Communication and navigation equipment Aeroplane maintenance...
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    gained from his time as an engineer with Streetly Electronics to keep the instrument functioning. In the band's first US concert, the back of the Mellotron...
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    Earth's energy budget (or Earth's energy balance) accounts for the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth...
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    the turn coordinator (TC) variant are essentially two aircraft flight instruments in one device. One indicates the rate of turn, or the rate of change...
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  • S, Williams J, Gayton D (1989). "Measuring balance in the elderly: preliminary development of an instrument". Physiotherapy Canada. 41 (6): 304–311. doi:10...
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  • Performance class a Performance class b Performance class c Mass and balance Instruments and equipment Communication and navigation equipment Aeroplane maintenance...
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    A steelyard balance, steelyard, or stilyard is a straight-beam balance with arms of unequal length. It incorporates a counterweight which slides along...
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    Microbalance (category Weighing instruments)
    A microbalance is an instrument capable of making precise measurements of weight of objects of relatively small mass: of the order of a million parts of...
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    mellophones instead, which, with many marching bands, better balance the tone of the other brass instruments; additionally, mellophones require less special training...
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    Violin (redirect from Violin (instrument))
    smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo...
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    scientific instruments led him to head a committee to review the Royal Society's meteorological instruments and to help assess the instruments of the Royal...
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    not properly calibrated and could not be properly zeroed as the instruments balance weights were too light for use in the Moon's gravity. Whilst the...
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    the torsion balance in the Eötvös experiment, the Eötvös pendulum, designed by Hungarian Baron Loránd Eötvös, is a sensitive instrument for measuring...
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  • each instrument and its uses. "The Astronomical Tables for Sanjar" is said to have been composed for Sultan Sanjar, the ruler of Merv and his balance was...
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