What are Canal Locks? In some rivers or canals the water is not too deep for large ocean-going ships. In such places large watertight compartments are built ... ... <看更多>
lock, enclosure or basin located in the course of a canal or a river (or in the vicinity of a dock) with gates at each end, within which the water level may ...
What is a canal lock ? ... Canal locks are the way in which canals can go up and over hills by altering the level of water of the canal. Simply put, you go into ...
The stop lock worked to completely break the flow of water and was a way to prevent one canal taking large amounts of water from another canal. The majority of ...
Locks were built to enable the canals to cross the hills which separated the various river basins. The frequency of the locks depended on the gradient to be ...
canal -lock: An inclosure with gates at each end, forming a connection between the upper and lower levels of a canal, enabling boats to pass from one to the ...
A lock is a fascinating piece of engineering that allows boats to travel either uphill or downhill. Many rivers posed navigation problems for early river ...
Locks are watertight chambers built on canals to help raise and lower ships in areas where the canal bed is not uniform. A ship's motion through locks is ...
Canal lock definition: A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and ...
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7 of the World's Most Impressive Canal Locks - Popular ...
Caen Hill Locks, England ; Kieldrecht Lock, Belgium · ServaesACB/CC BY-SA 4.0 ; Panama Canal Third Locks, Panama · JOHAN ORDONEZ / StringerGetty ...
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Canal Lock | Encyclopedia.com
Lock A lock or water lock is an enclosed, rectangular chamber with gates at each end, within which water is raised or lowered to allow boats or ships to ...
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How Do Canal Locks Work? - Practical Engineering
So, rather than cutting the channel deeper, we instead raise the boats up from sea level on one side and lower them back down on the other. And ...
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How canal and lock is made - material, history, used, structure ...
A canal is a man-made waterway. Canals are built for a variety of uses including irrigation, land drainage, urban water supply, hydroelectric power generation, ...
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Operating Canal Locks - Great British Boating
Operating Canal Locks. Locks are used to lift or lower boats from one level to another and can be found on almost all canals and many rivers.
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Canal and River Locks (écluses) | French Waterways
Signals · canal locks France · One red – the lock is not available, but will be shortly for example after the boats currently in the lock have left. · Red and ...
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What Are Canal Locks And How Do They Work? - Boat Safe
In the simplest of terms, a canal lock is a section of river or other navigable waterway that separates two other sections of different depths.
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What canal locks and Hong Kong's democratisation have in ...
Hong Kong as canal lock. Photo: HKFP. How a Lock Works. A boat comes to the top of the lock and wants to go to the downstream side ...
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A lot about locks – Waterways Holidays News - Boating ...
You'll need a minimum of two people to work a lock; one to drive the boat ... leaving sluices open can cause terrible water loss on canals.
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Locks - D & R Canal
When the D&R Canal first opened for operation in 1834, there were 14 lift locks along the 44-mile main stem of this transportation waterway between ...
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How a Lock Works - Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National ...
It lifts boats up or down to the next level on the canal. There are 74 locks on the C and O Canal. Only one boat at a time can fit in the lock.
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How the Canal Worked — Yours To Explore
The canal lock is a solution to this problem, allowing people to artificially control water levels along hills and other inclines or to bypass difficult ...
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How to | work a canal lock | The Simple Things
Should you find yourself navigating a narrow boat unexpectedly (it could happen) you'll need to be able to work the canal's locks in order ...
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Canal locks & boatlifts
Locks are an essential feature of any canal which needs to gain or lose height. A few canals have no locks, such as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal – ...
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How Does a Lock Work? | Friends of the Delaware Canal
If the lock is empty, the lower miter gates are closed. · When the lock is full, the upper miter gates are opened, and the canal boat enters. · The wickets in the ...
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How to Canal Locks Work? Brilliantly Simple Engineering
Canal Locks – a system for connecting two bodies of water that have different water ... Traveling through the Victorian Canal Lock on the Caledonian Canal ...
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Lock (water transport) Facts for Kids
Locks are used to make a river more easily navigable, or to allow a canal to cross land that is not level. Later canals used more and larger ...
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New locks in the Albert canal in Flanders, Belgium - Climate ...
In the low discharges on the Meuse, the screws can pump water back to the upper canal to reach the water lost due to the passage of a ship through the lock. In ...
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Lock Information - New York State Canals
mile NAME/ LOCATION LIFT/ ATTACHMENT
24.04 E8 Scotia; 115 Rice Rd, Rotterdam, NY 12306 14.0' ↑WB/↓EB; Lines
35.02 E10 Cranesville; 712 Hwy 5S, Amsterdam, NY 12010 15.0' ↑WB/↓EB; Lines
53.12 E13 Yosts; 195 Old River Rd, Fultonville, NY 12072 8.0' ↑WB/↓EB; Pipes & Lines
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General 3 — D&H Canal Historical Society
In one of the few walking trails that follows the towpath of the D&H Canal, you can follow their path in High Falls on the Five Locks Walk. The D&H Canal was ...
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175th Anniversary - Making It Work: The Lock - The Erie Canal
Locks also separate two sections of canal so that water from the upper level does not flood the lower level. A boat going from a lower level to a higher level ...
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Review and Optimisation of the UK's Canal Locks
Abstract: The UK canal lock system was first constructed over 210 years ... the use of the pound lock – the mechanics of the lock gearing mechanisms,.
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Modular Canal Lock Gates – MBACTrust
The Modular Canal Lock Gate is an innovative solution to a number of problematic situations on our historic canals.
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I & M Canal Locks. Lockport, Ill. - C:Documents and ...
LOCKS ON THE ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL, PARTICULARLY LOCKS 1 AND 2 ... intended to narrow the canal width as the waterway entered the lock chamber.
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Locks | Erie Canal Cruises
While you would need a key to open a standard lock on your front door or your car, you won't need one to open an Erie Canal lock. This discussion is about a ...
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Canal Locks - AskAboutIreland.ie
A lock is a section of canal or river that is closed off by watertight gates at either end to enable boats to be raised or lowered to the same water level ...
Both canals included several locks built on concrete foundations. The concrete was poured inside drained construction pits. In the canal of Saint-Denis, the ...
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How To Use A Canal Lock - Whilton Marina
What are Canal Locks. Locks are a mechanism buit to enable the canal to go up or downhill by altering the level of the water of the canal.
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Top 3 most beautiful locks on the Canal du Midi - Filovent
With its 240 kilometres and 63 locks, Canal du Midi is an essential part of river tourism in Europe. Indeed, the boat remains one of the ...
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Panama Canal History - Design of the Locks
The original lock canal plan called for one three-step set of locks at Gatun, one step at Pedro Miguel and a two-step set at Sosa Hill. In late 1907, it was ...
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Category:Canal locks in the United States - Wikimedia ...
English: Canal locks are for lifting or lowering ships from one water level to another on rivers and canals. Please put all other types of ...
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Canal lock - Academic Kids
A canal lock or navigation lock is a device that lifts or lowers boats, barges or other vessels from one water level to another. Locks used on canals allow ...
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What are Canal Locks? | Pitara Kids' Network
Home / Science for Kids / 5Ws & H For Kids / What are Canal Locks? ... In some rivers or canals the water is not too deep for large ocean-going ships. In such ...
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History of Locks | Canal Boat
The story of canal and river locks goes back a long way. The first attempts to control rivers involved millers, not boatmen.
The first lock of the Panama Canal from the Atlantic Ocean. Principle of operation of a ship pound lock.
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Bristol's Lost Lock - National Canal Museum
The hunt for the site of Delaware Canal Lock 1 ... which was the southern terminus of the Lehigh and Delaware Canals network.
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Canal Locks and Structures - Erie Canalway National ...
Lock. Locks are elevators for boats, lifting and lowering them as they travel along the waterway. Today, there are 57 locks on New York's canal ...
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Canal Lock Pictures, Images and Stock Photos - iStock
Several freighters, assisted by tugboats, are entering the Panama Canal at Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side. These container ships are fully loaded with ...
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How the Water Locks of Panama Canal Work? - Marine Insight
Design of the Panama Canal Locks. The Panama Water Lock System consists of a total of three sets of locks-12 locks- to help vessels transit ...
Operating locks can be part of the fun on your canal boating holiday once you ... Once you're inside the lock and the gates are closed, water will either ...
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Our Locks and Channels - Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway ...
Lock Systems Montreal to Lake Ontario - 2 U.S., 5 Canadian Welland Canal - 8 Canadian The Seaway Canals The Seaway system is connected by 5 short canals.
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Sault Canal Lock
Sault Canal Lock. As part of the Sault Canal National Historic Site of Parks Canada, the City of Sault Ste. Marie operates and maintains the Recreational Lock ...
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Improvement in Canal Locks - Scientific American
Therefore, any improvements in canals are of great value. The invention which we here illustrate is a device for facilitating the entrance of boats into locks ...
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Life as a lock keeper on the C&O Canal
But living on the Canal wasn't reserved for just the boaters. Lock keepers on the clock, from dawn to dusk. Each of the Canal's 77 locks needed ...
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Structures description - The American Canal Society
Locks allow boats to move from one level of a canal to another. Basically, the lock is a long box with a floor, two parallel walls, and gates at each end.
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The 6 Different Types Of Canal Locks | Insights & Description
Looking for information on canal locks? Did you know there are 6 different types of canal lock. Read this article for a full breakdown on ...
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A step by step guide to operating a canal lock - Burgundy Canal
This interactive animation shows the different stages of locking a boat through a canal lock. Precautions to take when locking through.
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How Canal Locks Work | A Canal Boating Article
In simple terms a lock chamber, a canal boat goes into the chamber and then the lock gates are closed behind. You need to empty or fill the chamber so that ...
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Miami County / 24-55 Miami and Erie Canal Lock 15
A system of locks allowed a canal boat to be raised or lowered, depending on the direction the boat was traveling. Constructed of limestone blocks, Lock 15 is ...
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Enlarging the Canal | New York Heritage
Even before the end of the first full navigation season on the Erie Canal, it was obvious there was a need for enlargement. The wait for locks often took ...
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How Canal Locks Work - MyWaterEarth&Sky
Canal Locks is the way in which boats can move up and down hills by altering the level of water through a Lock System. Simply put, you go into the Lock when ...
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Canal locks: how to operate one - boats.com
Canal boats explained), from a narrow lock that will only take a single 60-foot narrowboat to huge automated locks that can make small ...
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Tips for going through canal locks in France and what it's ...
Canal locks are a given on a canal boating trip, and on our recent canal cruise in Alsace aboard a Nicols boat, we must have done at least ...
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The Largest Lock Systems in the World - WorldAtlas
The Panama Canal lock is one of the world's largest. What Is A Water Navigational Lock System? A lock system is a mechanism used in water ...
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What are canal locks called? - SidmartinBio
What is a canal lock ? Canal locks are the way in which canals can go up and over hills by altering the level of water of the canal. Simply put, ...
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Object : Canal Lock engineered by James Brindley - BBC
Christine Richardson, author of 'James Brindley - Canal Pioneer' said: "Without narrow canals and their crucial narrow locks, the Industrial Revolution that ...
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Deepest Canal Locks in England and Wales, UK - Pennine ...
Lock name Number Canal Rise (change in level) Rise (ch...
Tuel Lane Lock 3/4 Rochdale 19' 8½" 6.00m
Bath Deep Lock 8/9 Kennet and Avon 19' 5" 5.92m
Middlewood Deep Lock 1/2 Manchester Bolton & Bury 16' 3" approx 5m appr...
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Corps finalizing Industrial Canal lock study as some residents ...
The lock and the canal are part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which winds along the coast from Texas all the way to the East Coast and ...
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Panama Canal - third set of locks - Sacyr Infraestructuras
The existing Canal consists of two "lanes" of lock chambers to allow two ships to cross the isthmus simultaneously in either direction; hence "Two sets of locks ...
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Lift Locks on the Canal - Touring Ohio
Canal Lock Gate Locks enabled canal boats to rise and lower with the terrain. As a canal boat moved upstream it required someway of rising in elevation.
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Locking Through The Erie Canal | BoatUS
I some areas you'll have to operate locks yourself. Taking your boat through canals with locks is easy, once you get the hang of it. Here are the basics.
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Little Falls NY Erie Canal lock operating under temporary ...
The New York State Canal Corporation announced that Little Falls Lock E-17 resumed operating under temporary conditions at 11 a.m. Friday, ...
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Locks on the D&R Canal - The Historical Marker Database
Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park · How a Lift Lock Operates: 1. · 2. The lock gates are closed. · 3. Wickets in the downstream gates are opened, water flows out ...
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Erie Canal Locks | Visit Montgomery County
Erie Canal Locks. Website. How can a boat climb a waterfall? Or a barge travel over rapids? They can't. Canals are built to ...
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OPERATING A LOCK - Canal Boat Cruises
To operate canal locks you will need a windlass (lock key) to turn the gear which winds up the paddles to allow water in or out of the lock. Wind the paddles up ...
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Canal Etiquette - The Do's & Don'ts Of Canal Boating - Black ...
Locks. The first point for lock etiquette is to consider the other people who may be waiting. It's a good idea for a member of your canal boat ...
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4352 Canal Lock Photos and Premium High Res Pictures
Find the perfect Canal Lock stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Select from 4352 premium Canal Lock of the highest quality.
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Canal Locks, Bridges and Tunnels - Andersen Boats
A canal lock is simply a chamber with gates at either end. By emptying or filling that chamber with water, your boat can move up or down onto a new section ...
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Why Does the Panama Canal Have Locks? - Parade
The canal needs locks in order to raise ships high enough to cross the Continental Divide. The ships traverse man-made Gatun Lake about 80 ...
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Kiel Canal Lock Chamber, Germany | HeidelbergCement Group
The Kiel Canal is one of the most travelled man-made shipping lanes worldwide. At Brunsbüttel, two dual-chambered locks serve to raise and lower ships on the ...
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Canal Lock
Canal locks are a series of gates designed to allow a boat or ship to pass from one level of water to another. Here, after a boat has entered the lock and ...
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Locks, bridges and tunnels - Narrowboating for Beginners
Turning a lock is a daunting task for beginning narrowboaters for several reasons: it is the one canal task that can cause serious damage or injury; ...
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CANAL LOCKS - Translation in French - bab.la
Translation for 'canal locks' in the free English-French dictionary and many other French translations.
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lock, canal | Infoplease
lock, canal, stretch of water enclosed by gates, one at each end, built into a canal or river for the purpose of raising or lowering a vessel from one water ...
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One-tank trips: Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal lock at ...
On a recent visit to Havre de Grace to speak at a Civil War event, I took the following photographs: Canals frequently made use of locks to ...
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Fourteen Locks | Newport City Council
Located just outside Newport, on the road to Risca alongside the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is the Fourteen Locks Canal Visitor Centre.
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How to Boat Through Canals and Locks - GetMyBoat
Learning how to navigate through canals and locks with your boat is important. Read our guide for more information. Rent a canal boat or ...
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Model of a canal lock | School resources, Genius hour, Canal
What are Canal Locks? In some rivers or canals the water is not too deep for large ocean-going ships. In such places large watertight compartments are built ...
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How do Canal Locks Work - Some Interesting Facts
Canal locks have been around for centuries, and are both elegant yet ingenious. In the early days of canals, locks were not necessary.
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Rideau Canal
Boats in Lock at Jones Falls When you watch a Rideau Canal lock in operation you are looking at a marvellous engineering system that uses water, gravity, ...
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Neptune's Staircase - Scottish Canals
... Neptune's Staircase is a dramatic flight of eight locks on the Caledonian Canal. ... it is the longest staircase lock flight in Scotland.
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: 23 locks so far and counting
ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: 23 locks so far and counting. After trailering NELLIE PEACH twelve hours last Wednesday from Lewes to Waterford, New York, ...
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Canal Lock Displacement - Digital Commons @ USF
Canal Lock Displacement. Rick Blanton. University of South Florida. Advisors: Thomas Bieske, Mathematics and Statistics. Ronnie Cathcart, Utopia Marine ...
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Panama Canal - Wärtsilä
The Canal uses a system of locks compartments with entrance and exit gates. The locks function as water lifts: they raise ships from sea level (the Pacific ...
Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (Industrial) Lock has Fixed Bollards | N 29° 57.920', W 090° 01.625'
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Canal lock - The Free Dictionary
The principles of canal lock construction are ancient: Britain, Ireland and Europe have had canals for centuries, and the Chinese built the Grand Canal south of ...
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Canal Locks - Rochester Wiki
Canals use locks to deal with changes in elevation (water runs downhill). They are essentially big tanks with doors on each end. A hydraulic system is used ...
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