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  Liquid limit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The liquid limit is the water content at which a pat of soil, cut by a standard-sized groove, will flow together for a distance of 12 mm under the impact of 25 blows in a standard liquid-limit apparatus.
In Hong Kong liquid limit tests are performed on a regular basis to check that hills will remain stable during the rainy season.
The liquid limit and (additional info and facts about plastic limit) plastic limit are used together for soil identification and classification.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liquid_limit.htm   (114 words)

  
 Limit
Explosive limit The explosive limit of a gas or a vapour, is the limiting explode.
The concept of the "limit of a function" is further generalized to the concept of cat...
Limit of a sequence Limit of a sequence is one of the oldest concept in trigonometric functions.
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 Central limit theorem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But, this limit is just the characteristic function of a standard normal distribution, N(0,1), and the central limit theorem follows from the Lévy continuity theorem, which confirms that the convergence of characteristic functions implies convergence in distribution.
Thus the central limit theorem can be interpreted as a statement about the properties of density functions under convolution: the convolution of a number of density functions tends to the normal density as the number of density functions increases without bound, under the conditions stated above.
Determination of the plastic limit and plasticity index for soil The plastic limit is that moisture content of a soil at which it becomes too dry to be plastic, used together with the liquid limit to determine the plasticity index which when plotted against the liquid limit on the plasticity chart enables the clas
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 definition of strain
To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
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 Gap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Foreign banks are subject to higher withholding taxes than Pakistani banks, but this gap is gradually being closed.
However, given the continuing gap between Turkey's extensive needs and its limited internal resources, external financing of public and private project investment will be a crucial factor in this and coming years.
There is a 20,000 housing unit gap for the city of Abidjan every year, and the Ivoirian government has recently launched a bid for three projects of 4,000 housing units each.
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