Sentences with phrase «acts as a compressed»

Normally, during the compression stroke, energy is used as the upward - traveling piston compresses air in the cylinder; the compressed air then acts as a compressed spring and pushes the piston back down.

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An act known as the «unboxing,» wherein the mattress, cut free from its compressed wrapping with the help of an enclosed Casper - branded slicing tool, expands to full thickness (10 inches) in one minute.

The chill of the cabbage leaves acts as a cold compress on your breasts, helping to constrict blood vessels and stop milk production.

Researchers do not know if there is a property within the cabbage leaf itself that helps to decrease the pain and swelling, or if the inflammation goes down because the cabbage acts as a cold compress.

It is not known why this works; the theory is that the leaves act as a cold compress, but it doesn't matter how or why it works as long as you get some relief with it.

This causes the rocks to act like compressed springs, storing energy until the friction across the fault is no longer able to hold the rocks back, and a crack forms across the fault as it begins to slip.

First, everyone who said that the braking effect comes from the compression stroke is wrong... the air in the cylinder is compressed which takes energy, yet after top dead center acts as a spring and helps force the piston back down, returning the exact same force as was put into it in the first place.

Healthy discs act as cushions between the bones of each vertebra, but in dogs with IVDD these discs compress and become painful.

Using photographs as a ground on which to build his painting, he applies layers of paint that act as screens, compressing the perceived space.

The negative space between forms also assumes a significant role as the stretchers» bellowed - out and curved - in edges acts with the forms to compress or expand the central field.

With its white, puffing plane and dangerous black contours, Los Alamos alludes to the explosive act — both atomic and creative — while Traced Gesture reads as a compressed Frank Stella, perhaps something from his 1972 Race Track series.

The air at the bottom has a higher temperature as a consequence of being compressed by the mass of air above being acted upon by gravity.