The Tube may refer to The London Underground The Tube , slang for Television , from the term cathode ray tube The Tube 2003 TV series , an ITV Sky programme featuring the work of staff on the London Underground The Tube TV series , a former Channel 4 UK music programme The Tube radio series , a Channel 4 Radio series The Tube Music Network , a US defunct music video channel The Port Authority Trans Hudson railroad linking New Jersey and New York, USA At least by older folks, see the References at the PATH article The series of tubes analogy, by Ted Stevens The Tube , a 1996 song by Ti sto KTBU , known as 55 The Tube disambig ... more details
Wiktionary Tube , or Tubes , may refer to Construction Tube structure , the predominant structural system for constructing tall buildings in the United States between World War II and the 1990s Tube fluid conveyance , used in plumbing, irrigation, and other applications Electronics Vacuum tube , a component of electronics Cathode ray tube also called picture tube , a common component of electronics such as televisions and other displays Tube BBC Micro , an expansion bus on the BBC Micro computer Food Yoplait Tubes, the name for Go Gurt portable yog o urt in every country except America and the United Kingdom Geometry A hollow cylinder geometry Mechanics Pneumatic tube , a method of transportation utilising compressed air Inner tube, a Tire Inner tube component of vehicular tires Media The Tube TV series , a music related TV series by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom Tube band , a Japanese pop group Tube film , a 2003 Korean film Tube game , a freeware game from Bullfrog Productions Tube & Berger , the alias of dance electronica producers Arndt R rig and Marco Vidovic from Germany YouTube ... tube Picture tube , a term used by the software package Paint Shop Pro for a small digital image with no background used on web pages a colloquial term for television The Tube Music Network , a music ..., popular in the 1970s and 1980s Nature Eustachian tube , part of the structure of the ear Lava tube , found in volcanic regions The inside of a hollow wave in surfing Packaging Tube container , a packaging solution for pasty and viscous goods such as toothpaste Photography Extension tube , a tool for macro ... tube , a piece of laboratory equipment Transportation London Underground , London s subterranean train system, commonly known as the tube Transbay Tube , an underwater rail tube across San Francisco Bay See also Tubes The Tube Microtube Nanotube disambiguation Pipe material Pipe Tub disambiguation root word Tubing disambiguation Disambig ca Tub da R r de Tube es Tubo fr Tube it Tube he nl Tube ... more details
Image Endotrachealtube colored.png thumb 350px alt Diagram of an endotrachealtube that has been inserted into the airway Diagram of an endotrachealtube that has been inserted into the trachea br A endotrachealtube blue br B cuff inflation tube with pilot balloon br C vertebrate trachea trachea br D esophagus A tracheal tube is a catheter that is inserted into the trachea in order for the primary ... applications. An endotrachealtube is a specific type of tracheal tube that is nearly always inserted through the mouth orotracheal or nose nasotracheal . A tracheostomy tube is another type of tracheal tube this convert 2 3 in mm adj mid long curved metal or plastic tube may be inserted into a tracheostomy ... line tube copied by many other manufacturers. Mallinckrodt GmBH developed the disposable endotrachealtube and produced a plethora of design variations, adding the Murphy Eye to their tubes in case of accidental placement of the tube to avoid right bronchial occlusion. David S. Sheridan was one of the manufacturers of the American markets disposable plastic endotrachealtube now used routinely in surgery ... of general anesthesia, critical care, mechanical ventilation, and emergency medicine. Endotrachealtube Image Sondeintubation.jpg 300px thumb left A typical cuffed endotrachealtube, constructed ... endotrachealtube, commonly used for thoracic surgery thoracic surgical operations such as VATS lobectomy . Types of endotrachealtube include oral or nasal, cuffed or uncuffed, preformed e.g. RAE tube ... finishes to check for fistulas tears . Another type of endotrachealtube has a small second lumen ... various types of endotracheal tubes DEFAULTSORT Tracheal Tube Category Medical equipment de Endotrachealtubus fr Sonde d intubation endotrach ale id Endotrachealtube it Tubo endotracheale nl Endotracheale ... tube to maintain patency of the lumen. History Portex Medical England and France produced the first cuffless plastic Ivory endotracheal tubes, in conjunction with Magill s design later adding a cuff ... more details
wiktionary Boob tube can mean Boob tube, US Social aspects of television Negative effects slang for a television set Boob tube, British term for a tube top The Boob Tube , a 1975 soap opera TV commercial parody marketed to capitalize on the success of The Groove Tube and similar comedy films of the era disambig ... more details
Tube worm may refer to Tube worm body plan , adaptation shared by the various tube worm species Various tube building marine worms Individual of Genus Lamellibrachia Individual of Family Serpulidae Individual of Family Sabellidae Individual of Phylum Phoronida Individual of Order Microconchida Riftia pachyptila Giant tube worm disambig ... more details
Tube nosed may refer to Nendo Tube nosed Fruit Bat , extinct megabat from the Santa Cruz Group of the Solomon Islands Peters s tube nosed bat , Vesper bat endemic to Uttar Pradesh, India disambig ... more details
Tube frame may refer to Tube structure , a structure designed to act like a three dimensional hollow tube so to resist lateral loads Space frame or space structure, a truss like, lightweight rigid structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern Superleggera , sometimes referred to as a tube frame structure disambig ... more details
Tube stock may refer to London Underground rolling stock designed to work in tube size tunnels Tubestock , meaning plants ready for revegetation disambig ... more details
In mathematics , a tube may refer to A cylinder geometry cylinder from elementary geometry A tube domain in several complex variables A tubular neighborhood in differential geometry mathdab ... more details
Tube tools are tools used to service any tubing material in industrial applications including, but not limited ... Tube Tools can be categorized into function by application Tube Cleaners tube cleaning demands vary widely by application Shell and tube heat exchanger s and chiller s Deposits are typically sediment ... out residual deposits. Tube Testers Use air pressure or vacuum to test for leaks, cracks, and material failures in a tube. Both manual activated and air activated models are available. To test for leaks in tubes, two operators are required with an operator at each end of the vessel. Step 1 Seal the tube at both ends. Step 2 Build air pressure or vacuum in the tube. Step 3 Observe gauge to see if air pressure is dropping or vacuum is not holding. Tube Plugs Repair To regain efficiency of a heat exchanger or chiller, tube plugs are installed to take leaky tubes out of service. The rule of thumb ... that is the same as or a compatible material to the tube and tube sheet. Puncture the leaky tube using a one revolution tube cutter to relieve back pressure. Some contractors weld the tube plugs to the tube sheet after they are installed to permanently secure the plugs in place. Tube Removers One or a combination of the three below methods is used to remove a tube from a boiler or chiller vessel Tube Cutters Tube Cutters are used to internally cut from the inside to the outside of the tube behind the tube sheet on one end. This lessens the force required to pull a tube. To eliminate tube cutting chips in the vessel, tubes should be scored and not totally cut through. The tube cutter needs to have sufficient reach to cut behind the tube sheet. Proper lubrication and cutting speed will increase cutting blade life. Tube Pullers Used to break the seal and pull expanded tubes from a tube sheet. A spear or expanding collet is inserted and engaged into the tube inner diameter. A ram or gun applies force to exert an extracting force on the tube. The power to pull the tube is generated manually ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Laboratory tubes are pieces of laboratory equipment used to hold small quantities of substances undergoing experimentation or testing. They are usually made of glass and vary in size and purpose. Laboratory tubes must not be confused with glass tubing , which is used to carry gases between laboratory equipment . The main examples of laboratory tube are listed below Ignition tube Test tube Boiling tube NMR tube See also Laboratory glassware DEFAULTSORT Laboratory Tube Category Laboratory equipment Chem stub ... more details
Merge Acoustic resonance date May 2009 In the field of acoustics , a tone is created by the periodic vibrations of air. There are several ways in music to create such vibrations. One of these is to use a tube and to blow across the end. This creates a note of a given frequency, depending on the length of the tube and the pressure of the air. An open tube is a tube in which both ends are open. The tube Resonance resonates at a single fundamental frequency or note. An open tube Resonance resonates at the same frequency as a closed tube of half its length. In an open tube , an antinode always appears at each open end. By overblowing an open tube , a note is obtained that is an octave above the fundamental note of the tube. For example , if the fundamental note of an open pipe is c1, then overblowing the pipe gives c2, which is an octave above c1. References Jaap Kool Kool, Jaap , Das Saxophon . J. J. Weber, Leipzig. 1931. Translated by Lawrence Gwozdz in 1987, discusses open and closed tubes. See also Closed tube Sound Acoustics Physics of music Vibrating string Category Sound Category Acoustics Category Mathematics of music musical instrument stub ... more details
Tube beading is a metal forming process that forms a bead on the end of a Tubing material tube . Tube beads can be used to help hold a Hose tubing hose on the end of a tube or to strengthen the end of the tube. ref Gregory Miller, Tube Forming Processes A Comprehensive Guide, 2002, http books.google.com books?id s7aWW Jk9VgC . ref There are two forming processes internal roll forming and ram forming . Internal roll forming Internal roll forming is generally slower than ram forming but it holds tight tolerances. Serrated Clamp tool clamp jaws are used to hold the tube while an axial pressure is applied to the end of the tube to form the bead. Ram forming Ram forming is quicker and usually preferred when speed of production is a concern. The automotive industry usually uses this process over internal roll forming. A clamp is used to hold the tube, the tube is expanded to desired diameter by an expansion Punch metalworking punch , and then another punch is used to reduce the tube back to pilot diameter. Multiple beads are possible using this process. References Reflist Category Metal forming metalworking stub ... more details
Picture Tube may refer to Electronics cathode ray tube , also called picture tube a common component of electronics such as televisions and other displays Graphics Picture Tube Paint Shop Pro a small digital image with no background, used as an individual illustration on personal web pages, internet forums, social networking sites and similar. Disambig ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image ThistleTube.jpg right 86px A thistle tube is a piece of laboratory glassware consisting mostly of a shaft of tube, with a wiktionary Reservoir reservoir and funnel like section at the top. Thistle tubes are typically used by chemist s to add liquid to an existing system of apparatus. The thistle tube shaft is designed to allow insertion through a small hole present in some Stopper plug stoppers , permitting the tube to be inserted into a container such as an Erlenmeyer flask . br style clear both Laboratory equipment DEFAULTSORT Thistle Tube Category Laboratory glassware Chem stub ar es Tubo de seguridad fr Tube de s ret simple Thistle tube zh ... more details
image Test tube true C.png frame A boiling tube looks much like a test tube. A boiling tube is a large cylindrical vessel used to strongly heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner . A boiling tube is essentially a scaled up test tube , being about 50 larger in every aspect. They are designed to be wide enough to allow substances to boil violently as opposed to a test tube which is too narrow for this task boiling liquid can explode out of the end of test tubes when they are heated as there is no room for the bubbles of gas to escape independently of the surrounding liquid. Boiling tubes are commonly made from Pyrex glass which can withstand high temperatures. ref cite web title Laboratory Glassware Types of Laboratory Tube url http www.thomasnet.com articles custom manufacturing fabricating laboratory glassware publisher ThomasNet ref References reflist Laboratory equipment DEFAULTSORT Boiling Tube Category Laboratory glassware ar es Tubo de ebullici n simple Boiling tube zh ... more details
Tube riding is described as riding inside of the tube of a breaking wave. There are many ways to tube ride. The most natural and primitive way is by body surfing. Body surfers ride the waves on their stomachs and can easily access the tube. Tube riding can also be accomplished on a boogie board, surfboard , and any other wave riding mechanism one can come up with. Many surfers spend years and even lifetimes surfing without ever really getting tubed the term used for getting inside the barrel of the wave . br Category Surfing Category Surfing terminology ... more details
Expert subject Physics date May 2008 A Krasnikov tube is a speculative mechanism for space travel involving the warping of spacetime into permanent faster than light superluminal tunnels. The resulting ... Serguei Krasnikov ref Structure The tube is a distortion of spacetime that can be intentionally ... Tube allows for a return trip that takes you back to the time right after you left. This several light year long man shaped tube might arguably constitute a megastructure, but unlike most megastructures ... of spacetime. ref cite web url http arcana.wikidot.com krasnikov tube title Krasnikov Tube work ... diagram shows the causal structure of a Krasnikov tube the U shaped line is the boundary of the tube ... requires that the traveller races along the tube at speeds close to that of light. Causality violations One tube case Krasnikov argues that despite the time machine like aspects of his metric, it cannot ... message sent along a Krasnikov tube cannot be used for back in time signaling. Two tube case While one Krasnikov tube can be seen to present no problems with causality, it was proposed by Allen E. Everett ... can create timelike loops and violations of causality. For example, suppose that a tube is built connecting ... tube II rather than traveling back in tube I, the first tube they produced. In another 1.5 years of ship .... But now that two Krasnikov tubes are in place, astronauts from the future can travel to the star in tube II, then to Earth in tube I and will arrive 6000 years earlier than their departure. The Krasnikov tube system has become a time machine. It is presumed that a similar mechanism which destroys time ... exponentially and eventually destroy the Second Krasnikov tube as it approaches the timelike ... Tube A Subway to the Stars by John G. Cramer http arxiv.org pdf gr qc 9702049 Exposition and criticism of the Krasnikov Tube by Allen E. Everett and Thomas A. Roman http arxiv.org abs gr qc ... Krasnikov Tube Category Warp drive theory ca Tub de Krasnikov es Tubo de Kr snikov it Tubo di Krasnikov ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Infobox laboratory equipment name Durham tube image alt See Wikipedia Alternative text for images caption acronym other names uses Gas detection inventor manufacturer model related Test tube Durham tubes are used in microbiology to detect production of gas by microorganism s. They are simply smaller test tube s inserted upside down in another test tube. This small tube is initially filled with the solution in which the microorganism is to be grown. If gas is produced after inoculation and incubation, a visible gas bubble will be trapped inside the small tube. The initial air gap produced when the tube is inserted upside down is lost during Sterilization microbiology sterilization , usually performed at 121 C for 15 or so minutes. Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Acidgas.jpg DEFAULTSORT Durham Tube Category Microbiology equipment Cell biology stub Microbiology stub ja pl Rurka Durhama ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 An ignition tube is a piece of laboratory equipment. It is a laboratory tube used much in the same way as a boiling tube except not being as large and thick walled. It is primarily used to hold small quantities of substances which are undergoing direct heating by a Bunsen burner or other heat source. Ignition tubes are used, e.g. in the sodium fusion test . Ignition tubes are often difficult to clean due to the small bore. When used to heat substances strongly, some char may stick to the walls as well. They are usually disposable. Laboratory equipment DEFAULTSORT Ignition Tube Category Laboratory glassware Sci stub ... more details
Image NMR sample.JPG thumb right An NMR tube filled with a colorless sample, sealed with a green polyethylene cap and Parafilm An NMR tube is a thin glass walled tube used to contain samples in nuclear ... to ensure that NMR tube spins at a regular rate i.e. that they do not wobble , usually about 20 ... in seven and eight inch lengths a 5 mm tube outer diameter is most common, but 3 ... to the straightness of the tube. ref http www.nmrtubes.com technical faqs.html ref Poor values for either ... tube which has poor camber may wobble when rotated, giving rise to spinning side bands. Sample ... should be used in order to fill the tube by 4 5 cm depending on the spectrometer . Protein NMR ... in a Pasteur pipette , directly into the NMR tube. The NMR tube is then usually sealed with a polyethylene ... tubes A Shigemi tube is a microscale NMR tube used with an ordinary size NMR tube. Shigemi tubes ... depth is compensated for by solid glass on the NMR tube beneath the level of sample, which varies for the make of spectrometer. Once air bubbles have been expelled, the plunger is secured to the tube ..., left 8 mm bottom length outer tube suitable for Bruker and Varian NMR spectrometers, right 15 mm outer tube suitable for Varian only Image Shigemi tube assembled.JPG Fully assembled 8 mm Shigemi tube, insert secured to outer tube with parafilm Image Shigemi sample close up.JPG Close up of the sample ... Nmr tube cleaner.svg thumb 80px left NMR tube cleaning apparatus 1 NMR tube, 2 Compound residue, 3, 4 NMR tube cap, able to form a vacuum seal, 5 Cleaning Tube fits within NMR tube, 6 Solvent reservoir ... with a pipe cleaner may be helpful in removing traces of solid contaminants. If necessary, the tube ... services NMR 010.jsp accessdate 2008 06 27 ref When the NMR tube is determined to be clean, it is triple .... NMR tube cleaner A better alternative to the use of potentially hazardous oxidizers is an NMR tube ... through the entire length of the NMR tube. In this apparatus, the NMR tube 1 with the cap 3 fixed to the base ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2009 Notability date August 2009 A Groan Tube is a toy marketed by various manufacturers which makes a distinct groan sound when turned on one end an eeeeeeeww sound one way, and a oowweeeee sound the other. The groan tube was invented in the early 1960s by Japanese toy manufacturer Kureo . The toy was first sold as Magic Noise Tube . Mattel was the first company to sell the product in the United States in 1973. The Jibba Jabber toy, made by Ertl , produced a similar sound. DEFAULTSORT Groan Tube Category Toys of the 1960s Category Practical joke devices toy stub ... more details
File Z tube.svg right thumb 200px Z tube The Z tube is an experimental Tool apparatus for measuring the tensile strength of a liquid . It consists of a Z shaped tube with open ends, filled with a liquid, and set on top of a spinning table. If the tube were straight, the liquid would immediately fly out one end or the other of the tube as it began to spin. By bending the ends of the tube back towards the center of rotation , a shift of the liquid away from center will result in the water level in one end of the tube rising and thus increasing the pressure in that end of the tube, and consequently returning the liquid to the center of the tube. By measuring the rotational speed and the distance from the center of rotation to the liquid level in the bent ends of the tube, the pressure reduction inside the tube can be calculated. Negative pressure s, i.e. less than zero absolute pressure, or in other words, tension physics tension have been reported using water processed to remove dissolved gas es. ref Smith, Andrew M. http jeb.biologists.org cgi reprint 157 1 257.pdf Negative Pressure Generated by Octopus Suckers A Study of the Tensile Strengths of Water in Nature, J. exp. Biol. , 157, 257 271, 1991. ref Tensile strengths up to 280 atmospheres have been reported for water in glass. ref cite web url http books.google.co.uk books?id XjNS6v7q130C&pg PA255&lpg PA255&ots sGiBMDOEe6&dq spinning z tube cohesion water title Air and water the biology and physics of life s media ref References reflist Category Fluid mechanics Category Materials science Category Scientific instruments pnb ... more details
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