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| 34 | 98 | The View more quotes about second">second major factor is the aperture itself. |
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| 34 | 95 | The device in the quarters of the pit master was an outflow device. |
| 34 | 96 | Its accuracy is controlled by two major factors, its shape and the size of the aperture through which the water drains. |
| 34 | 97 | It tapers toward the bottom to keep the water pressure constant, that being required to regularize the speed of the flow, a larger amount of water over a larger area exerting a pressure equivalent in its effect to that of a lesser amount over a smaller area. |
| 34 | 98 | The second major factor is the aperture itself. |
| 34 | 99 | This is a drilled plug which is periodically replaced. |
| 34 | 100 | If this were not the case the passage of the water, over time, even in stone, would enlarge the aperture, deregularizing the device. |
| 34 | 101 | "We found these," said one of the black-tunicked men, reporting back. |