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plunger bucket

A pump piston without a valve. Also called plunger lift.
Webster 3rd

plunger case

The pump barrel, or cylinder, in which a solid piston or plunger works.
Also called pole case. Fay

plunger jig washer

A washer in which water is forced upward and then downward through a
screen by the action of a plunger in an adjoining compartment. Although
these machines are still in use, the term "jig washer" is now applied to
the fixed-screen, air-pulse jig, which is directly descended from the
first Baum washer used in 1892. See also:jig washer; pneumatic jig.
Nelson

plunger lift

Scot. A pump and attached column of pipes, that raises water by means of a
ram or piston. Fay

plunger press

A press in which the pressure is applied by a plunger, with a
reciprocating motion, to charges of feed contained in molds in a vertical
or horizontal table. BS, 5

plunger pump

a. Reciprocating pump used for moving water or pulp, in which a solid
piston displaces the fluid. Pryor, 3
b. A displacement-type pump may be of various types, such as: (1) the
triplex pump, a vertical or horizontal, single-acting plunger type for
small heads with three single-acting cylinders in the pump frame driven by
a motor mounted on the outside of the frame and connected to the
crankshaft of the pump through gearing; (2) the quadruplex or quintuplex
pump, a pump having four or five cylinders; and (3) the duplex pump, a
crank-and-flywheel type for high heads, with double-acting plungers.
Lewis

plunger-type washbox

A washbox in which pulsating motion is produced by the reciprocating
movement of a plunger or piston. Syn:piston-type washbox

plus distance

Fractional part of 100 ft or m used in designating the location of a point
on a survey line--such as, 4+47.2, meaning 47.2 ft or m beyond Station 4;
or 447.2 ft or m from the initial point, measured along a specified line.
Seelye, 2

plush copper ore

See:chalcotrichite; cuprite.

plus mesh

The portion of a powder sample retained on a screen of stated size.
Osborne

plus sight

See:backsight

pluton

A body of medium- to coarse-grained igneous rock that formed beneath the
surface by crystallization of a magma.

plutonic

a. Pertaining to igneous rocks formed at great depths. CF:hypabyssal
AGI
b. Pertaining to rocks formed by any process at great depth.
Syn:abyssal; deep seated; hypogene. AGI

plutonic metamorphism

Deep-seated regional metamorphism at high temperatures and pressures,
often accompanied by strong deformation; batholithic intrusion with
accompanying metasomatism, infiltration, and injection (or, alternatively,
differential fusion or anatexis) is characteristic.
CF:injection metamorphism

plutonic ore deposit

Collectively, the major group of ore deposits of magmatic origin that have
been formed under abyssal conditions. Schieferdecker

plutonic rock

Igneous rock formed deep within the Earth under the influence of high heat
and pressure, hypogene rocks; distinguished from eruptive rock formed at
the surface. Hess

plutonic series

A series of different igneous rocks that evolved from the same original
magma through various differentiation stages.

plutonism

a. The obsolete belief that all of the rocks of the Earth solidified from
an original molten mass. CF:neptunism
b. A general term for the phenomena associated with the formation of
plutons. AGI

pluviometer

See:rain gage

ply

a. U.K. A thin band of shale lying immediately over a coal seam.
b. U.K. A rib or successive ribs; e.g., of clayband with very thin
partings.
c. Limy ply; a limestone bed; Edinburgh, U.K.

pneumatic

Set in motion or operated by compressed air. Nelson