- Look up
mothball or
mothballing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mothballing may
refer to:
Aircraft boneyard Mothballs Mothballed railway Reserve fleet...
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primarily of naphthalene, but due to naphthalene's flammability, many
modern mothball formulations instead use 1,4-dichlorobenzene. The
latter formulation may...
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Mothball Mint is a solo CD by
Kevin Hearn,
keyboardist of
Barenaked Ladies. This
album was
produced by
Michael Phillip Wojewoda and
released in 1997. Kevin...
- decommissioned. A
reserve fleet is
informally said to be "in mothballs" or "
mothballed". In
earlier times,
especially in
British usage, the
ships were said to...
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Cocooning (also
known as
Mothballing) is the
practice of
coating stored equipment or
machinery (typically aircraft) with
polyvinyl plastic for protection...
- 2006. "AGL - AGL to
mothball South Australian generating units". www.agl.com.au.
Retrieved 27
December 2015. "AGL to
defer mothballing of
South Australian...
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closed in 2008, with the loss of 83 jobs. Hanson, who said they were
mothballing the factory,
cited the
recession and
standstill in new
house builds....
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billion cut to operations, maintenance, and
training funds,
rather than
mothballing 11
cruisers and
three amphibious warships.
Forbes was
founder and chairman...
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known as the "
mothball fleet". She was
briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to
Vietnam to
support US
troops before returning to the
mothball fleet in 1969...
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maintains a
number of its
ships as part of a
reserve fleet,
often called the "
Mothball Fleet".
While the
details of the
maintenance activity have
changed several...
