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A Dichroic Filter is a very accurate gas filter used to selectively pass a small range of hydrocarbons -True or False
A Dichroic filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors
The ability of a body or substance to resume its original shape or size when a distorting force is removed is called...
The strong mineral acid with the molecular formula H2SO4 is Sulphuric Acid – True or False
Octanes are a family of hydrocarbon that are typical components of gasoline - True or False
A Kern is a heated, thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature is produced. Typically it is used for hardening, burning or drying materials – True or False
a Kiln is the correct answer
A Fuse is a sacrificial over current protection device whose essential component is a metal wire or strip that melts when too much current flows and thus interrupts the circuit in which it is connected – True or False
Who was the Greek Goddess of love and beauty…
Fission is…
A turbocharger is a smaller secondary internal combustion engine attached to a larger primary engine which creates an increase in power - True or False
It is a forced induction device used to allow more power to be produced for an engine of a given size
Compressive strength is the opposite of tensile strength – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1151 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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In IT - a general term that covers several disciplines that study the effect of design on the ease of use and level of satisfaction with a product, site or system is called - User Experience – This is generally shortened to UEX – True or False
User Experience is shortened to UX
The Buttress Thread form is often used in vices or artillery. It has two different thread profiles and is designed to handle very high axial thrust in one direction with a square thread form and has a sloping thread form (typically at 45 deg) on the other side – True or False
What is the value of pi to 5 places of decimal….
Although largely superseded - VHS was a consumer level video standard developed by Japanese company JVC and launched in 1976. VHS stands for Video Home System – True or False
JPEG stands for – “Joint Photographic Exponential Graphic” – True or False
JPEG stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”
What is an Oubliette …
A component in an internal combustion engine which converts the rotating motion of the camshaft into linear motion of the valves, either directly or indirectly is called a Spline – True or False
The correct answer is a Tappet
PVC is a thermoplastic polymer - PVC stands for PolyVinyl Chlorine – True or False
PVC stands for PolyVinyl Chloride
What is the name of the thick strips of copper or aluminum which conduct electricity within a switchboard, distribution board, substation or other electrical apparatus…
In automobile engineering terminology– a Gudgeon Pin fixes the steering rack and pinion linkage – True or False
A Gudgeon Pin (also called a Wrist pin) connects the piston in an internal combustion engine to the connecting rod and provides a bearing for the connecting rod to pivot upon as the piston moves
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1150 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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In computer terminology - CUSPY stands for Computer Ultimate Standard Program – True or False
CUSPY stands for Commonly Used System Program
In which European country is the Ice Hotel Built each Year…
A Spectrometer is a scientific instrument used measure distance on building and construction sites – True or False
A Spectrometer is used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon
A 4 Jaw Chuck would typically be found on what metal working machine…
In Chemical Engineering - Stable atoms have as many electrons as protons in the nucleus. The electrons gather around the nucleus in quantum orbitals following four basic rules called the Aufbau principle – True or False
In Electrical Engineering - What name is given to a passive electronic component that stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field...
What name is given to a device which is typically used to restrict the flow of fluids or filter light…
In mathematics the first 2 numbers in a Fibonacci Sequence are either 2 and 2 or 0 and 2 - True or False
the first 2 numbers in a Fibonacci Sequence are either 1 and 1 or 0 and 1
Steam Engines are External Combustion engines - True or False
Decimal time is not a practical concept and has never been used - True or False
Decimal time was used by the Chinese and the French during the French Revolution
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1149 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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In 1852, Elisha Otis invented the worlds first automatic fire sprinkler system for high rise buildings – True or False
In 1852 Elisha Otis invented the safety elevator, which automatically comes to a halt if the hoisting rope breaks.
A mathematical ratio with origins in ancient Greece, is often used in Design to create a visually appealing layout to the human eye and is called the Diamond Ratio – True or False
It is called the Golden Ratio
HCl is the chemical symbol for which acid…
How many terminals are on a Diode….
A galvanometer is an electro mechanical instrument used for detecting and indicating an electric current – True or False
A tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep them from turning is called a Wench – True or False
the correct answer is a Wrench
What is 1/64 of an inch, expressed in SI units…
The apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference is called the Coriolis Effect – True or False
Military dictators of Japan where historically called Shotguns – True or False
They where called Shoguns
What nationality was Ralph Miller, the inventor of the Miller cycle internal combustion engine…
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1148 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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Were is the Hang Seng stock market index located…
What is the name given to the process of making helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which thus gives the shell a spin and improves its aerodynamic stability and accuracy…
What name is given to the process which joins materials usually metals or thermoplastics, by coalescence…
What is the third most common gas in the Earths atmosphere…
Isaac Newton introduced the concept of moment of inertia, which is is a measure of an object's resistance to changes to its rotation - True or False
The concept was introduced by Leonhard Euler in his book Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum in 1765
The process of physically cutting a design or similar onto a very hard surface is called …
A League is an ancient Celtic unit of length and was the distance a person could walk in about one hour – True or False
Pteromechanophobia is also known as aerophobia, aviatophobia and aviophobia and is a fear of what…
Saturated Steam is the name given to steam at equilibrium with liquid water. It defines the boundary between wet steam and superheated steam on the temperature-enthalpy diagram – True or False
American multinational technology company Cisco Systems was founded in 1984 by Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1147 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen invented the use of electromagnetic radiation to take images of bones and organs inside the human body, which later led to the invention of the X-Ray Machine – True or False
Lake Mead in the USA was created by which man made barrier...
In process Engineering - SCADA stands for - Standard Central Data Application– True or False
SCADA stands for - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
Heat flows from Hot to Cold – True or False
In Web Design - the theory that users will abandon a website if they are unable to complete their task within 3 mouse clicks is generally called the Triple Touch Rule – True or False
It is called the 3-click Rule
HNO3 is the chemical symbol for which acid…
A Rectifier Diode is a two-lead semiconductor that allows current to pass in either direction – True or False
It allows current to pass in only one direction
The number 10 to the power of minus nine (-9) has the unit name…
Obsidian is the naturally occurring volcanic glass which is formed as an extrusive igneous rock when felsic lava is extruded from a volcano and cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth – True or False
Turning- is the name of the metal cutting process typically used for producing a cylindrical surface with a single point tool. The workpiece is rotated on a spindle and the cutting tool is fed into it radially, axially or both – True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1146 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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Automobile manufacturer Fiat was founded (and is based) in which European country…
Turin, Piedmont region
What name is given to a machine which spins at high speed in order to separate substances which are in solution..
Introduced around 1750 by Joseph Black and derived from the Latin word “latere” – The expression which describes the amount of energy released or absorbed by a chemical substance during a change of state that occurs without changing its temperature is called – Latent Heat – True or False
A digital image format written in XML is called SVG – SVG stands for Standard Viewable Graphics – True or False
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics
An aircraft nicknamed "the tin goose" was produced by which automobile company…
the actual name was the Ford 4AT Trimotor
Bastard Cut, Second Cut and Smooth Cut are types of which tools…
Scottish comedian Billy Connelly was a plumber before he became a professional comedian – True or False
he was a Welder
The temperature 0 degrees K equals how many degrees C…
What name is given to the residue generated in the combustion of coal which is often used to supplement Portland cement in concrete production…
Anhydrous describes a chemical or other solid substance whose water of crystallization has been removed - True or False
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The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1145 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
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The positive side of a Diode is called the Cathode and the negative side of the Diode is called the Anode – True or False
The positive side is the Anode and the negative side is the Cathode
An instrument for measuring Acceleration or Vibration is called an Accelerometer – True or False
ARPANET was the first - wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. - ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork – True or False
In the Roman numeral system - the number XCIII is equal to 83 – True or False
XCIII = 93
Compounds which lower the surface tension of a liquid are called Mutants– True or False
the correct answer is Surfactants
The word cement traces its origins back to which culture...
A mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction is called a Spline – True or False
the correct answer is a Ratchet
In what year was the Polaroid instant camera released...
The first Polaroid camera, called the Model 95, and its associated film went on sale in 1948 at a department store in Boston.
The shape of an aircraft wing or propeller blade - as seen in cross section is called Airfoil (or Aerofoil in the UK) – True or False
Early ceiling fans used during the 1860's and 1870's in the United States were powered by water - True or False
True, A stream of water was used in conjunction with a turbine
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