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Brass predicts that you'll be able to get 50,000 titles electronically--more than you can find in an average Barnes & Noble franchise--in two years.
Hell will be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey before the difference in the coefficients of expansion (or contraction) of brass and iron causes cannonballs “in a muzzle-loading battery on a battleship” to topple.
Copper, galvanized material, rubber, brass, and lead must not come in contact with culturing, holding, acclimation, or dilution water, or with effluent samples and test solutions.
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.
Nearby, the Marine Museum of Upper Canada (Exhibition Place, just west of Princes’ Gate) traces the history of shipping on the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, with all the brass and wooden paraphernalia of the old vessels in addition to some beautiful scale models.