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ballast tank

compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure
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ballast tank

Summary

ballast tank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (195 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ballast tank's image is recorded as Submersible diving operations.svg[2].
  • ballast tank's subclass of is recorded as compartment[3].
  • ballast tank's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09qd1_[4].
  • ballast tank's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/ballast-tank[5].
  • ballast tank's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000873[6].
  • ballast tank's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as ballast-tanks[7].
  • ballast tank's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01000873[8].
  • ballast tank's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781284578[9].

Why It Matters

ballast tank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (195 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ballast-tank_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ballast tank}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ballast-tank}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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