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Krupp Process
- - A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process. (b) A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, invented or practiced by Krupp, the details of which are secret. It is understood to involve the addition of chromium as well as nickel to the metal, and to include a treatment like that of the Harvey process with unknown variations or additions. The product is mentioned by some authors, as improved Harvey, or Harvey-Krupp armor plate.
Kurt Waldheim
- noun - Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
Labial Artery
- noun - a branch of the facial artery that supplies the lips of the mouth
- an artery that is a branch of the facial artery that supplies the lips of the mouth
Laboriousness
- noun - the quality of requiring extended effort
Lacrimal Vein
- noun - drains the lacrimal gland; empties into the superior ophthalmic vein
Laminariaceae
- noun - large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters
Landing Field
- noun - a place where planes take off and land
Lantern Wheel
- noun - a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks
Last Judgment
- noun - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
- (New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives