Вопрос № 223796 - Английский язык

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Riveting is a 1_______ of joining metals 2_______. The process consists of drilling or punching the metal plates, inserting the rivet and then 3_______ it by compression force. There are several standard 4_______ of rivet heads with different uses.

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Metals began to be widely used as 1_______construction materials not so long ago. Before the 2_______ of the nineteenth century metals played little structural role in the process of building. Mostly they served for 3_______ parts of buildings. The ancient Greeks and Romans are known to use bronze for joining 4_______ of stone.

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Heat causes some 1_______ to expand more than others. For example, copper expands more than 2_______. This effect is used in the bimetal strip, which consists of two dissimilar strips of metal 3_______ together. The strips are usually made of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) and invar, a ferrous alloy which expands very little when heated.
An increase in 4_______ causes the brass to expand more than the invar. This expansion causes the bimetal strip to bend, and consequently a switch or a valve is activated.

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Heat causes liquids to expand. This effect is used in the 1_______. An increase in air temperature 2_______ the liquid to expand in the heat sensor. This expansion causes the valve to close and consequently the 3_______ of hot water is reduced.
After a time, the temperature will go down and the 4_______ will cool and contract. The spring load will now be greater than the liquid pressure and the valve will open. Once again, the hot water flow is increased.

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Man has always tried to improve his standard of living by changing his surroundings and by making 1_______ to simplify the everyday tasks necessary for his existence. At first, the only 2_______ he could use were those he could see around him – stone, wood and so on. He survived in competition with other animals because of his abilities with his 3_______ and their coordination with his brain. Because he did not have the strength and speed of some animals, his survival depended on his 4_______ use to get food and to keep him warm and safe.

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In many fields the science of the Mayas surpassed that of the Greeks and 1_______. Possessing a profound knowledge of mathematics and 2_______ they had achieved a rare degree of perfection in chronology and everything pertaining to calendar-making. In Chichen Itza they 3_______ observatories whose domes were better orientated than the one erected in Paris in the 17th century. They had adopted a sacred year of 260 days, a solar of 365 days and a Venusian year of 584 days. The exact duration of the solar year has been fixed at 365.2422 days. The Mayas put it at 365.2420 days, - i.e. with a decimal point of the number we have arrived after lengthy calculations. It is 4_______ that the Egyptians arrived at the same approximation, but to establish that we should have to believe in concordances in the Pyramids which are doubtful, whereas we actually possess the Mayas calendar.