• The slug is a derived unit of mass in a weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and the United States...
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  • up slug or slugs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A slug is a gastropod mollusk without a shell or with a very small internal shell. Slug or slugs may...
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    of a full locomotive. A slug is distinct from a B–unit, which has both a prime mover and traction motors but no cab. A slug may retain an operator's...
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  • Metal Slug (Japanese: メタルスラッグ, Hepburn: Metaru Suraggu) is a Japanese multimedia franchise and run and gun video game series originally created by Nazca...
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    gauge of shotguns and shotgun shells. Pound-force Slug (unit) The pound is often described as a unit of "weight", and the word "weight" can refer to either...
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  • Metal Slug 3, the threatening presence of General Morden looms over the world once again. Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving of the Peregrine Falcon unit reunites...
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  • Poundal (redirect from Poundal (unit))
    space as poundals, lb⋅ft/s2 or lbf = slug⋅ft/s2, avoids the constant tied to acceleration of gravity on earth. Slug (unit) Obert, Edward F., “Thermodynamics”...
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  • Slugcatcher (redirect from Slug Catcher)
    Slug Catcher is the name of a unit in the gas refinery or petroleum industry in which slugs at the outlet of pipelines are collected or caught. A slug...
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  • fundamental unit of force instead of the pound as a fundamental unit of mass. In this sub-system, the unit of mass is a derived unit known as the slug. 1 s l...
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    A shotgun slug is a heavy projectile (a slug) made of lead, copper, or other material and fired from a shotgun. Slugs are designed for hunting large game...
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  • in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States Slug – Unit of mass poundal – unit of force in the british imperial system, equal to 1 pound...
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  • units Pound-foot (torque) Poundal Slug (unit) Units of energy IEEE Std 260.1™-2004, IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement (SI Units,...
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    English engineering unit is the pound-second (lbf⋅s), and in the British Gravitational System, the unit is the slug-foot per second (slug⋅ft/s). Impulse J...
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  • Pound (force) (category Units of force)
    the unit of mass. In those applications, the preferred unit of mass is the slug, i.e. lbf⋅s2/ft. In other contexts, the unit "pound" refers to a unit of...
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  • Foot-poundal (category Units of energy)
    inch-ounce force (in•ozf) Poundal Foot-pound (energy) Pound-force Slug (unit) Units of energy Edward F. Obert, Thermodynamics, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948...
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    locomotives built by RELCO in Albia, Iowa. Each locomotive was mated to a slug unit; due to the railroad's tight curves, constructed when the railroad was...
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  • Slug gate, also written slug-gate, stylised as Slug Gate or SlugGate, is a public health scandal and controversy involving a catering firm I Cook Foods...
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    system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined...
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    locomotive units for the Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad over a period of nine months. The front locomotive contains the engine while the slug unit balances...
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    The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 1   kg ⋅ m/s 2 {\displaystyle 1\ {\text{kg}}\cdot...
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    some cow-calf sets used standard couplers instead. A slug is semi-permanently paired with a cabbed unit, but does not have its own engine. At low speeds,...
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    avoirdupois is used as a unit of mass, but in some contexts, the term "pound" is used to refer to "pound-force". The slug is another unit of mass derived from...
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    The Kerry slug or Kerry spotted slug (Geomalacus maculosus) is a species of terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc. It is a medium-to-large sized, air-breathing...
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  • was removed and it became a full road slug that now receives its power from whatever mother unit it is multi-unit (MU) connected to. The Rock Island Railroad...
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    Fighters The Last Blade League Bowling Metal Slug Metal Slug 2 Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug 4 Metal Slug 5 Metal Slug X Ninja Combat Real Bout Fatal Fury Special...
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    Kansas City Southern Railway until 1991, although it was converted to a slug unit sometime in the 1970s and the body was filled with concrete and old wheels...
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    compound with the formula (C8H16O4). It is used as a pesticide against slugs and snails. It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde. Metaldehyde is flammable...
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  • 80665 kg⋅m/s2 = 980665 g⋅cm/s2 The hyl, metric slug (mug), or TME (German: technische Masseneinheit, lit. 'technical mass unit'), is the mass that accelerates at...
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    spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns are most commonly used as smoothbore firearms, meaning that their...
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    contain one or more engines and traction motors, so slugs and snails are not listed. In the US, B units of mainline diesel locomotives usually had their...
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