• Wetting-down is a raucous ceremony for newly promoted officers observed in the U.S. and Royal navies, and the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Marines, National...
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    Wetting is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together...
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    Surfactant (redirect from Wetting agent)
    as detergents and cleaning agents, but also for example as emulsifiers, wetting agents, foaming agents, antistatic additives, or dispersants. Surfactants...
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    markings can still be determined by trimming the horse's hair closely, then wetting down the coat to see where there is pink skin and black skin under the hair...
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    of Spartan education. Ephebeia, a training period for young Athenians Wetting-down. In the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy, is a ceremony in which a naval officer...
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    Urolagnia (redirect from Clothes Wetting)
    Other variations include arousal from wetting or seeing someone else urinate in their pants or underclothes, or wetting the bed. Other forms of urolagnia...
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  • used various methods for lighting and also made adjustments, such as wetting down the streets to enhance the contrast by making them darker. He also did...
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  • involve "simulated emergency services activity, aerial photography, wetting down of street and atmospheric smoke". According to those residents, the protest...
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  • In electrical and electronics engineering, wetting current is the minimum electric current needing to flow through a contact to break through the surface...
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    Retrieved 20 April 2009. Carlo Munoz (5 August 2011). "Navy Drops Carrier Group, Down to Nine". Sea. AOL Defense. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011...
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  • truck. Wetting-down or Wet Down – Celebration in honor of one's promotion as an officer or to the SNCO ranks, so named for the tradition of wetting the recipient...
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    commissioning Ship decommissioning Ship naming conventions Tingey House USS Constitution WAVES Wetting-down United States battleship retirement debate...
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    as Jones believed that Hopkins was hindering his advancement by talking down his campaign plans. As a result of this and other frustrations, Jones was...
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  • 7 Gunny baby-sits on the Major and Polly's first anniversary. 32 6 "Wetting Down" Michael Lembeck Miriam Trogdon October 22, 1990 (1990-10-22) 66507 23...
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    and Taxes" (Season 1, Episode 16) 1990 Major Dad 2nd Lt. Ned Nicholas "Wetting Down" (Season 2, Episode 16) 1993 Johnny Bago Redwood "Spotting Elvis" (Season...
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    usually a flux. It then flows over the base metal (in a process known as wetting) and is then cooled to join the work pieces together. A major advantage...
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    break down aggregates and form stable dispersions of optimally sized pigment particles. This process generally involves three distinct stages: wetting, deaggregation...
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  • versions of this but it usually includes: pushing the old apparatus out, wetting down the new vehicle and pushing it back into the station. It may also include...
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    bringing that gun into action. Captain Miller remembered King's gun "cut down sixteen of the enemy." As the British marched into Washington, holding the...
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    had planned a surprise attack at daylight, despite the damp weather wetting down their powder and the extremely poor state of the soldiers' equipment...
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  • Electrowetting is the modification of the wetting properties of a surface (which is typically hydrophobic) with an applied electric field. The electrowetting...
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