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Wheatstone

American  
[hweet-stohn, weet-, -stuhn] / ˈʰwitˌstoʊn, ˈwit-, -stən /

noun

  1. Sir Charles, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.


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Further tightening the market, an outage at Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG facility in Western Australia has removed additional supply, increasing Europe’s vulnerability to external shocks, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"Chevron Australia is working to restore production at the Gorgon and Wheatstone gas facilities following production outages," Chevron said in a statement.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Mr Gibson has since managed to get in touch with relatives of the crewmen featured in the poem, including the son of wireless operator Cyril Wheatstone.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024

Night-shift workers at Chevron's Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities voted to restart strikes in the afternoon meeting, the Offshore Alliance, a coalition of two unions, said in a statement.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2023

The maximum sensitiveness of the galvanometer is retained when the connection is made with the Wheatstone bridges.

From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano