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But is this actually a windmill? This is a turbine, a generator. A windmill does milling. It is connected to mechanical devices that do mechanical work such as milling flour, rather than a generator that creates electricity.

The inside of a working windmill are more complex and beautiful than any turbine.

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So what does a textile mill do? Does it grind cloth into fine dust, or does it something else? Is the sawdust produced by a sawmill its primary output product?

The word mill is overloaded. In Dutch, these are two separate words: molen, a singular noun describing a machine using a rotational mechanism for powering some industrial process; and malen, a verb describing the milling of particles into flour. In this case, the article describes a mill of the first kind.


If the brits and not the yanks had taken the lead in production hw, we would still be saying "mill" instead of "ALU".


One suspects there's a certain amount of grinding in Fickmühlen.




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