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Ice Cream Treats, Wooden Golf Clubs, Aircraft Wings, Car Battery Recycling

1. Ice cream (formerly and properly ice-cream, derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners. 2. A golf club is [...]

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Levels, Hot Dogs, Abrasive Grain, Sandpaper

1. A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb). Different types of spirit levels may be used by carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, other building trades workers, surveyors, millwrights and other metalworkers, and in some photographic or videographic work. 2. A hot dog is [...]

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Curling Stones, Refrigerators, Aluminium Baseball Bats, Opalescent Glass

1. Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four rings. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called “rocks”, across the ice curling sheet towards [...]

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Magnets, Cooked Ham, Silver Teapots, Crash Test Dummies

1. A magnet (from Greek μαγνήτις λίθος magnḗtis líthos, “Magnesian stone”) is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets. 2. [...]

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Automatic Transmissions, Silver Miniatures, Hot Air Balloon Baskets, Darts

1. An automatic transmission (also called automatic gearbox, or “Straight shift”‘) is one type of motor vehicle transmission that can automatically change gear ratios as the vehicle moves, freeing the driver from having to shift gears manually. Most automatic transmissions have a defined set of gear ranges, often with a parking pawl feature that locks [...]

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