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Here in Argentina, perhaps 40 years ago, my father took me to a car restoration workshop where two metal sheet workers ("chapistas") were forming a 1936 Chevrolet coupé roof by heating a steel sheet in the floor with a torch and curving it up by cooling it with damp cloth. That's also a technique to remove dents. An English Wheel was used for the smaller radius parts.

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Recognizing irony is not the strongest of your skills, isn't it?

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However, 3/4 of adults who do have children also dislikes them and are not happy at all.

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Saddly the opposite is much more complicated.

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In spanish "Voltage" (i.e. voltaje) is "tensión" (tension) or "diferencia de potencial" (potential difference). A problem here is that "tension" communicates a concept, but "voltage" communicates nothing, it's only a derivation of the unit used, or perhaps something to do with Alessandro Volta, a gentleman most students these days hadn't the pleasure to meet.

A simmilar problem in spanish was "amperaje" (amperage) which is not much heard any more except very colloquially among electricians; the standard term is "corriente" (current).

However, the units and letters are somewhat confusing for the students:

V(oltage) = E(lectric field?), unit is Volt, is refered as tension of potential differece. A(mp) = I(ntensity), unit is Ampere, is refered as corriente. P(ower), unit Watt, is consistent, as is refered as potencia (power).

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Man, I've stopped cold turkey the ingestion of my two favourite vegetables this past year:caffeine and tobacco (after 25 and 35 years of use -and frequent abuse- respectively), because of this pandemic. Come on.

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Bucatini better than tallarines?! haha

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