Exempel på ballast

• The boat had 35 tons of cement block ballast that caused it to ride lower in the water.

• Zebra mussels are believed to have come to the United States in ballast water dumped by ships from Europe.

• On discharging part of the ballast, the balloon ascended to the height of 200 yards.

• The huge Christmas tree is held down by two tons of ballast.

• They have failed to repair broken and cracked rails and failed to replace sleepers and stone ballast.

• His deep voice added some needed ballast to this soprano-heavy score.

• Another potential carrier would have been ships' ballast, especially from ships that were wrecked at the isthmus.

• Furthermore, the fluorescent sources had conventional magnetic ballasts and therefore were subject to luminous flicker, whereas incandescent lamps do not flicker.

• Suppose a surveyor is surveying a 2000 tonne cargo ship and discovers that ballast water is being stored in a fuel oil tank.

• It also has floats and lead ballast units to maintain the stability of the structure.

• The extent to which recently-founded labor-populist parties depended on the new unions for "organizational ballast," then became particularly clear.

• Like ballast, the dead weight of your loss balances, restrains, holds you to measured meter.

• In this, the theory goes, the condition and effectiveness of party organisations and underlying intellectual trends play a far bigger role than any historical ballast.

• She also took in a few tons of graphite as ballast after having unloaded her main cargo.

• However, since there was no wharf, jetty or landing beach, ballast from wrecked vessels would most likely have been dumped in seawater.

• A device called a ballast performs this function.

• The way the authors deal with difficult material is not to break it up so that readers can make sense of it, but to weigh it down with academic ballast.

• The north masonry facade of the causeway, capped by a parapet, was significantly more formal than the southern edge of the causeway, where the ballast feathered out.

• No evidence of subfloor ballast was encountered.

• Ballast water is stored in the fuel oil tank.

• This constraint specifies that the mass of the yacht, before adding any ballast, must be less than or equal to the mass of the water that it displaces.