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  • These decades-old pits, which are obviously no longer used, have nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing. page xi: Detection of high concentrations of benzene, xylenes, gasoline range organics, diesel range organics, and total purgeable hydrocarbons in ground water samples from shallow monitoring wells near pits indicates that pits are a source of shallow ground water contamination in the area of investigation.

    Forbes.com: News Christopher Helman 2011

  • If an application uses a custom font to display text but the font resource is marked purgeable, then at some point the memory manager will purge the font from memory.

    O'Grady's PowerPage - Your Mobile Technology Destination 2009

  • Jan 4 06: 39: 44 E-Ws-Computer kernel [0]: pages 267429, wire 136714, act 43503, inact 62, zf 0, throt 3001, could discard act 75157 inact 7610 purgeable 1382

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • Nov 5 08: 11: 25 macbook kernel [0]: pages 344048, wire 117020, act 137535, inact 5840, zf 1934, throt 0, could discard act 36962 inact 38613 purgeable 6144

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • 2 / 5 / 09 3: 52: 59 PM kernel pages 635428, wire 220619, act 232958, inact 31, zf 59, throt 1114, could discard act 55989 inact 111080 purgeable 13578 2

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

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