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A tobacco pipe so arranged that the smoke passes through water making a bubbling noise whence its name In India the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell It is a simple type of hookah...
Hookah
A pipe with a long flexible stem so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water Also called narghile and water pipe The hubble bubble is a simple form of this device...
Nargile
An apparatus for smoking tobacco It has a long flexible tube and the smoke is drawn through water Also called hoookah and water pipe Functionally similar to the hubble bubble a simplified form...
Hubble Telescope
A large astromical optical telescope placed into orbit around the earth from which in the absence of absorption and distortion by the earths atmosphere clear high resolution images of astronomical objects can be obtained in the visible infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths The telescope was launched into orbit on April 24 1990 Since then the telescope has taken thousands of images many of them unique recording never before seen astronomical phenomena Service missions were performed in 1993 and 1997 during which astronauts upgraded or replaced equipment on the telescope Link to Hubble Telescope Information...
Bubble
A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas as a soap bubble bubbles on the surface of a river...
Bubbly
Abounding in bubbles bubbling...
bubbling
giving off bubbles of a liquid...
Bubble Act
Bubble Act, 6 Geo. 1, c. 18 (repealed by 6 Geo. 4, c. 91), passed after the failure of the South Sea Scheme, to discourage similar schemes designed merely as baits to extract money from the thoughtless....
Boiling
Heated to the point of bubbling heaving with bubbles in tumultuous agitation as boiling liquid surging seething swelling with heat ardor or passion...
Bleb
A large vesicle or bulla usually containing a serous fluid a blister a bubble as in water glass etc...
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