{"id":37692,"date":"2022-11-05T19:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37692"},"modified":"2022-11-05T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:08:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/05\/word-of-the-day-836\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gubbins<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. dialectal, British<\/em> : fish parings or refuse
    \nbroadly<\/em> : any bits and pieces : SCRAPS<\/li>\n
  2. British<\/em> : GADGETS, GADGETRY
    \n\/\/ the gubbins<\/em> for changing a tire
    \n\/\/ all the navigational gubbins<\/em>
    \n\u2014 J. L. Rhys<\/li>\n
  3. British<\/em> : a foolish or futile person : SIMPLETON
    \n\/\/ you silly gubbins [Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “Can a slew of nuclear fusion start-ups deliver unlimited clean energy?<\/a><\/em>” Thomas Lewton, NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (22 October 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n

    It remains to be seen if solutions like this can work in practice. Even if they do, no-one has yet built the gubbins that would surround a reactor to make electricity non-stop. Exhaust systems, heat exchangers, turbines \u2013 all of it must be custom-built from materials that can withstand the high-energy neutrons released during fusion. \u201cUnless these companies have a secret research line in materials, after a few months of operation [the reactors] will simply fall apart,\u201d says Donn\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Gubbins: dialectal, British : fish parings or refuse broadly : any bits and pieces : SCRAPS British : GADGETS, GADGETRY \/\/ the gubbins for changing a tire \/\/ all the navigational gubbins \u2014 J. L. Rhys British : a foolish or futile person : SIMPLETON \/\/ you silly gubbins [Merriam-Webster] \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37693,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692\/revisions\/37693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}