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The gutta-percha tree (Isonandra gutta) is a large tree, some 20 metres tall of the family Sapotaceae growing in South-East Asia, including at one time in Singapore, but excessive cutting of the trees there instead of tapping them for their resin led to their extinction on Singapore. It's resin (gutta- percha) is tapped and used as a form of rubber.
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Amanda Tapping is an English actress. She was born in 1965 at Rochford, Essex.
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In surgery, tapping is an operation to remove a dangerous accumulation of fluid. The term is chiefly applied to the removal of fluid from the pleura or peritoneum, and the operation is performed by withdrawing the fluid by way of a small pipe inserted into the cavity.
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A Hartley oscillator is a thermionic oscillator comprising a triode with an oscillatory circuit connected between anode and grid, and inductive coupling between the anode and grid circuits, via a tapping on the inductive element of the tuned circuit.
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