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Alum Bay Alum Bay is a sandy bay near the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, within sight of The Needles. The bay is noted for its multi-coloured sand cliffs.
An amusement park exists at the top of the cliffs, and during the summer season a chair lift takes tourists down to the beach below. It also features a small number of rides and stalls aimed at children, souvenir shops, a restaurant, and a sweet shop in which guests may also take a tour and view how some of the sweets are made ('The Isle of Wight Sweet Manufactory'). Nearby is an attraction at which guests may view glass-blowing, and purchase wares. During peak season, the amusement park hosts frequent firework shows.

Aluminium Aluminium (IPA: /ˌæljʊˈmɪniəm/, /ˌæljəˈmɪniəm/) or aluminum (/əˈluːmɪnəm/, check spelling below) is a kind of metal, chemical symbol is Al and atomic number 13. Performance as silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. . It is can not be solute in water under normal circumstances. Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, and the third most abundant element overall, after oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 8% by weight of the Earth’s solid surface. Aluminium is too reactive chemically to occur in nature as the free metal. Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.[1] The chief source of aluminium is bauxite ore.
Aluminium is remarkable for its ability to resist corrosion (due to the phenomenon of passivation) and its light weight. Structural components made from aluminium and its alloys are vital to the aerospace industry and very important in other areas of transportation and building. Its reactive nature makes it useful as a catalyst or additive in chemical mixtures, including being used in ammonium nitrate explosives to enhance blast power.

apartment,

An apartment an housing that dwelled by more than a family. It is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Apartments may be owned (by an owner-occupier) or rented (by tenants).

The definition of "apartment" commonly used in North America, whereas the term "flat" is sometimes, but not exclusively used in the Great Britain and most other English influence country ;other name is Flat.In some countries, "apartment" is often used to describe more upmarket flats.

Some apartment-dwellers own their apartments, either as in which the residents own shares of a corporation that owns the building or development; or in condominiums, whose residents own their apartments and share ownership of the public spaces. Most apartments are in buildings designed for the purpose, but large older houses are sometimes divided into apartments. The word apartment connotes a residential unit or section in a building. owners, lessors, or managers often use the more general word units to refer to apartments. Units can be used to refer to rental business as well as residential apartments. When there is no tenant occupying an apartment, the lessor is said to have a vacancy. For apartment lessors, each vacancy represents a loss of income from rent-paying tenants for the time the apartment is vacant (i.e., unoccupied). Lessors' objectives are often to minimize the vacancy rate for their units. The owner of the apartment typically when transferring possession to the occupant(s) gives him/her the to the apartment entrance door(s) and any other keys needed to live there, such as a common key to the building or any other common areas, and an individual unit key. When the occupant(s) move out, these keys are typically returned to the owner.

 Adobe (R chirpici) Spanish word for a sun-dried brick as well as for the clay from which the bricks are made. Composed of a very fine mixture of clay, quartz, among other minerals, adobe is plastic and can be molded easily when moist into bricks, which receive straw as the only addition. These bricks are baked in the sun for 7 to 14 days. Because they disintegrate when wet, adobe bricks are used only in regions of limited rainfall, such as the southwestern region of the United States.

Adsorbtion (F adsorption, R adsorptie, adsorbtie) Attachment of a substance to the surface of a solid by virtue of forces arising from molecular attraction (BS 892). Retention (of water vapor) as a surface layer on a material AEC (US) Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1974. Broken up in 1974 into the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Later ERDA became the Department of Energy

 Aggregate (R agregate) 1. any granular mineral material 2. a : crushed stone, crushed slag, or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof b : any of several inert materials, either hard (such as crushed rock, sand, gravel, and crushed slag) or semi-soft (such as rubber) used for mixing with a cementing materials to form concrete, mortar, grout, asphalt or plaster c : a clustered mass of individual soil particles varied in shape, ranging in size from a microscopic granule to a small crumb, and considered the basic structural unit of soil. Inert materials added to a mix in order to save on more expensive ingredients and impart special properties. 3. an aggregate rock See ASTM C33 (aggregate for concrete), C144 (aggregate for masonry mortar)

Air barrier (F pare air) 1. Air barrier continuity (F Continuité du pare air) 2. to provide effective air leakage control (F pour limiter avec efficacité les fuites d'air) 3. the masonry wall illustrated in Figure xxx employs a reinforced, modified asphalt air barrier membrane that is self adhered and mechanically fastened to the concrete block back up (F le mur de maçonnerie illustré à la figure xxx, par exemple, comporte une membrane pare air bitumineuse modifiée, renforcée, auto adhésive et assujettie au mur de remplissage en blocs de béton à l'aide de fixations mécaniques) 4. air seal in the window (F l'étanchéité à l'air dans la fenêtre): "the air seal in the window is provided by the frame section inside the thermal break and the glazing unit seal at the frame (F l'étanchéité à l'air dans la fenêtre est assurée par la section du dormant se trouvant à l'intérieur de la coupure thermique et par le joint d'étanchéité du vitrage au niveau du dormant)

 Lenders will base the size of the mortgage they are willing to approve in part on the appraised value as determined by a real estate appraiser. Appreciation An increase in property value, sometimes reflecting inflation or a business potential. Appurtenance Any constructed constructable secondary facility somehow annexed to a main building. It could be either attached or not (i.e., a shed to a house, or an easement to land) and it will pass as part of the main property upon sale. Assessment Estimated value of a property as established by local officials for purposes of calculating the property taxes owed. The assessed valued may or may not be equal to the appraised value. Also "Assessor" ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers Asphalt (R Asfalt) Black petroleum residue, which can be anywhere from solid to semisolid at room temperature. When heated to the temperature of boiling water, it becomes pourable. It is used in roofing materials, surfacing roads, in lining the walls of water-retaining structures such as reservoirs and swimming pools, and in manufacturing floor tiles. Asphalt should not be confused with tar, a similar looking substance made from coal or wood and incompatible with petroleum derivates ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials Atomic Number (symbolized Z) (R Numar Atomic)The number of protons in a nucleus. It determines the chemical properties of an element Atomic Weight (R greutate atomica) The nominal atomic weight of an isotope is given by the sum of the number of neutrons and protons in each nucleus. The exact atomic weight differs fractionally from that whole number because neutrons are slightly heavier than protons and the mass of the nucleus is also affected by the binding energy Auto-Zero Automatic internal correction for offsets and/or drift at zero voltage input AWG American Wire Gage AWS Automated Weather Station measures environmental factors such as air temperature, relative humidity, rain, wind, ground temperature, solar radiation and air pressure Axial Load (R incarcare axiala) Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis Back to the top Credits: ACI, ANSI, APA, ASTM, BIA, BOCA, CIB, CSA, DEA, ISO, MinnDOT, NRCC, PCA, TMS, USACE A.