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STACK EFFECT

Specialty Definition: STACK EFFECT

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Environment

Flow of air resulting from warm air rising, creating a positive pressure area at the top of a building and negative pressure area at the bottom. This effect can overpower the mechanical system and disrupt building ventilation and air circulation. (references)
 Air, as in a chimney, that moves upward because it is warmer than the ambient atmosphere. (references)

Mining

The impulse of a heated gas to rise in a vertical passage, as in a chimney, a small enclosure, or building. Syn:chimney effect. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: STACK EFFECT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-f-f-k-s-t-t"

-4 letters: affects, casette, effaces, effects, featest, tackets.

-5 letters: ackees, affect, casket, efface, effect, estate, facete, facets, faeces, stacte, tacket, testae.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: STACK EFFECT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 54 41 43 4B      45 46 46 45 43 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000101 01000110 01000110 01000101 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#69 &#70 &#70 &#69 &#67 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0041 0043 004B      0045 0046 0046 0045 0043 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53543537452394040393754

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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