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Turbine : Environmental Health Terms
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A device that translates the movement of a gas or liquid flowing through a cylinder or along a pipeline into the rotational force by impacting on the rotor and/or fixed blades of the turbine. The three principal substances that produce the force...
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A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788-1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802-1867), a student of Claude Burdin, built the...


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