GLOSSARY (Cont) - TM-38-4000476

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

Chemical brown stain-A discoloration of wood that

Box car-A fully enclosed freight car having doors on

sometimes occurs during the air or kiln drying,

both sides and/or sometimes on the ends. Used for

apparently caused by the oxidation of extractives.

general freight services.

Chill space-Refrigerated warehouse area in which the

Box pallet-A pallet with framework on the back and

temperature can be controlled between 32 . and

sides. This storage aid is designed so that several

50 . (0 . and 10 ).

may be stacked and the weight is supported by the

framework rather than the supplies.

Chute-Usually an inclined trough (sometimes a tube)

Box shop-Area used for fabricating, manufacturing,

used to convey supplies from an upper to a lower

level.

assembling, or repairing containers and storage

aids.

Classified material-Any product, substance, or media on,

Bridge plate-Plate, usually of metal, used to span the

or in which classified information as defined in DOD

5200.1-R, information security program regulation,

space between freight cars or trucks and the loading

is embodied or from which such information can be

platform.

obtained.

Brown stain-A rich brown to deep chocolate brown

Cleated-plywood box-A rigid container constructed by

discoloration of the sapwood in some pines caused

joining six panel faces which are made of plywood,

by a fungus that acts similarly to the blue-stain

reinforced with wood edges or intermediate cleats.

fungus.

Commodity-A specified grouping of items of supply.

Bulk liquid storage space-Space inside tanks designed

for the storage of liquid bulk.

Common carriers-See carrier.

Bulk storage-Storage in warehouses of any large

Condensation-Moisture resulting from condensing such

quantity of supplies usually in original containers or

as the moisture gathered on a cold surface in a

storage of liquids or solids such as coal, lumber,

warm room.

rubber bales, petroleum products, or ores in tanks or

piles.

Consolidation station-Place to which less than carload

lots of freight are relayed so that they can be

Bursting strength-The pressure required to rupture a

grouped with other freight to make full carloads for

container when it is tested in a specified instrument

the same delivery point.

under specified conditions.

Container-A receptacle such as a bag, barrel, drum,

Butt boards-Boards arranged at an angle on a sorting

box, crate or package used to hold and to protect

platform to facilitate the formation of lumber drafts

contents. (See also the definition of container,

with uniform faces.

intermodal,

International

Organization

for

Standardization (ISO).)

Caged storage-Storage space segregated within a

building and specially screened or barricaded to

Container,

intermodal,

ISO-A

reusable

cargo

prevent pilferage or to isolate hazardous materials.

conveyance which confines and protects the cargo

from loss or damage, can be handled in transit as a

Care of supplies in storage (COSIS)-A program whereby

unit, can be mounted and secured in or on marine,

supplies and equipment in storage are preserved in

rail, or highway equipment and which meets the

a serviceable condition through inspection and

standards of ISO. Common types of containers are:

action taken to correct any forms of deterioration

weatherproof, dry enclosed, refrigerated, van,

and to restore the supplies to ready-for-use

tank, nonweatherproof, open tops, car carrier, and

condition.

flat rack.

Carrier-A commercial transportation media providing

Contamination--Any matter foreign to the finished

railroad cars, motor trucks, ships, airplanes, or other

element, compound, or part, which has an adverse

conveyances for transporting supplies.

effect on the material.

Check-A lengthwide separation of wood, the greater part

of which occurs across the rings of annual growth.

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