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Oiling the Wheels was the previous entry in this blog.
SpaceX Prepares for Another Launch - Photo Report - NASA Watch 2009
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GCLarge business Oiling the gears of commerceRadicon is a worldwide supplier of engineering products.
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Oiling of feathers can kill birds outright, ingestion of contaminants makes them sick, and chemical exposure can have long term effects on reproduction and behavior.
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Oiling, or the fouling of feathers by oil, leads to death in seabirds because they lose the ability to thermoregulate, and they become too waterlogged to fly.
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Oiling of fur or feathers causes loss of insulating capacity and can lead to death from hypothermia, smothering, drowning, and ingestion of toxic hydrocabons.
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-- Oiling the Dangerous Engine of Arbitrary Government: Newspaper Coverage of the Military Commissions Act (aka the torture authorization and habeas rights revocation act);
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David Ottewell again previews the Greening of Manchester Traffic, as ever in the prism of the emotive and partisan "Congestion Charging" instead of Greening, or Peak Smoothing, or Jam Avoidance, or Oiling the Wheels of Commerce, or whatever.
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Oiling improves heat transfer from hot oven air to moist meat.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Oiling with linseed oil apparently began on Dutch farms around 1800.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Oiling improves heat transfer from hot oven air to moist meat.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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