Trench foot is caused by long, continuous exposure to a wet, cold environment, including actual immersion in water. Work involving small bodies of water or working in trenches with water pose particular threats. Symptoms include a tingling or itching sensation, burning, pain, and swelling, som...
Hanging wall and footwall are terminologies used in describing dip-slip faults. The hanging wall refers to the block/unit that is above the fault plane (and the footwall). On the other hand, the footwall refers to the block/unit that is below the fault plane (and the hanging wall)....
Trench foot, or immersion foot syndrome, is aserious condition that results from your feet being wet for too long. The condition first became known during World War I, when soldiers got trench foot from fighting in cold, wet conditions in trenches without the extra socks or boots to help ke...
I always thought I would be a better gangster than a spy. The spy thing is too much sneaking around in a trench coat trying to lurk in the shadows of the night. Always vulnerable, like a puppy on an iceberg, a spy often is a traitor and who wants to groove with a traitor? Gatheri...
when the temperature is low, it leads to the formation of ice, its solid state of matter. Water is an essential component of an ecosystem to thrive and survive. Water is evenly distributed by the means of the water cycle, which is the cyclic evaporation and transpiration, condensation, an...
foot traumas. People with diabetes, epilepsy, and certain classes of medications also increase the risk of developing Ledderhose Disease.[1]This condition can affect people of any age but is mostly seen in people between 30 and 50 years of age and males tend to get more affected by it ...
Assault engineer units that followed some days behind dealt with the many pockets of resistance that had been bypassed by the armored forces. Nazi German soldiers used flamethrowers (including this Flammenwerfer 35) extensively, particularly on bunkers and trench systems. The Soviet T-34 is the ...
Depending on how badly a lateral is damaged, trenchless repair is not always an option. The damage can be caused by age, tree roots, and ground settling. In these cases, an open trench replacement will be necessary. While an open trench replacement can be disruptive to your landscape, it ...
And we definitely wouldn’t want to have our feet rot from within through fungal infections like athletes foot or even trench foot. Picture of my feet where the left foot was free of athletes foot, but the right foot suffered from it. I blamed this fungal growth affliction on my hiking ...
ocean, traveling with U.S. explorerVictor Vescovoto the floor of the Mariana Trench, 35,876 feet below the sea surface. That trip, in a $48 million submersible, earned both explorers the Guinness World Record for thelongest distance traveledat the deepest part of the ocean by a crewed...