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steelyard: see balance balance, instrument used in laboratories and pharmacies to measure the mass or weight of a body. A balance functions by measuring the force of gravity that the earth exerts on an object, i.e., its weight. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The device may gain even wider applications in everything from cereal plants to steelyards to rubber factories. On all sides are steelyards, paper recycling plants and rag mills. None of the economists interviewed held out hope that the big, basic industries - the huge tire plants, the steelyards, the auto lines, the aluminum factories - would ever return to Los Angeles, or the high wages those industries offered. |
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