Look at it this way:
A big truck (lorry) pulls in to your job site.
You ask "what on that truck?"
The yardman says "that's the piping material!"
You ask "What piping material?"
He says, "That is the pipe, fittings and valves."
You ask "What fittings?"
He says " The elbows, the TEEs, the Reducers, the flanges, the O-Lets for the branches, you know, the fittings"
You say, "Oh"
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