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atmospheric pressure

NOUN
  1. the pressure exerted by the atmosphere

How To Use atmospheric pressure In A Sentence

  • When the pressure in the venturi is lower than the atmospheric pressure, the gasoline in the float bowl enters the airstream going into the engine.
  • The application of controlled subatmospheric pressure causes mechanical stress to tissues.
  • Jules Galdea explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance. The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World
  • The Weather Bureau at Washington relies greatly on these isobars for statements concerning local and distant weather forecasts, any shift in isobaric lines showing change in atmospheric pressure. General Science
  • Both types of LWR work at very high pressure, something like 200 times atmospheric pressure, which is a potent driving force to expel radiotoxic substances into the environment. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures.
  • In a cabin soaked in pure oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure for five hours, almost anything bums.
  • Standard atmospheric pressure to high pressure pipeline vacuum 10.33 meters.
  • Pipe, are to stop after cohesion 8 a 10 atmospheres of pressure or suspend the 8 a 10 gas-tight test of the atmospheric pressure, checking the welds and joint have revealed that gas attack.
  • The temperature pattern also reverses when the pattern of atmospheric pressure of the southern oscillation reverses.
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