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differential) The differential lies midway between the driving wheels of a motorcar. When the car is turning, the bevel pinions spin, allowing the outer wheel to turn faster than the inner wheel. Arrangement of gears in the final drive of a vehicle's transmission system that allows the driving wheels to turn at different speeds when cornering. The differential consists of sets of bevel gears and pinions within a cage attached to the crown wheel. When cornering, the bevel pinions rotate to allow the outer wheel to turn faster than the inner. |
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| Dividing the real value of each channel of an experimental spectrum measured with the high incident energy by the corresponding channel in the graph of the correction factor provides a spectrum whose the shape is corrected for the differential absorption within the analyzed wavelength domain. |
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