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- noun Plural form of
mega-joule .
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This makes for a shopping experience resembling the shelves for non-frozen items, but it is very energy inefficient as mega-joules simply flow out of the freezer into the (heated) supermarket.
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In its naval guise it has a muzzle energy of 64 MJ (mega-joules); a muzzle velocity of 2,500 m / s; a maximum range in excess of 500 km and an impact velocity of 1,600 m / s. part of a 2003 US Navy contract worth up to $10 million over five years, as part of a $100 million research package in the Navy's 2004 budget.
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To break the figures down: an average petrol-run car will cost about 3.7 mega-joules (MJ) per passenger-kilometre (pkm).
Leftwrites 2008
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