Assertion: black walnut's shell | /r/CapableOf | plug up cooling passages
Facets:
value: to the turbine
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: For example: In the early days of jet transportation, crushed walnut shells were used to scour the compressor airfoils clean, but when engines with air cooled vanes and blades in the turbine started being manufactured this practice was stopped because the crushed shells tended to plug up the cooling passages to the turbine, resulting in turbine failures due to overheating.