Sentences with phrase «pressure equivalent volume»

In the case of methane, that's 180 units known as v (STP) / v, or standard temperature and pressure equivalent volume of methane per volume of the absorbent material.

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And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

Btu per cubic foot: The total heating value, expressed in Btu, produced by the combustion, at constant pressure, of the amount of the gas that would occupy a volume of 1 cubic foot at a temperature of 60 degrees F if saturated with water vapor and under a pressure equivalent to that of 30 inches of mercury at 32 degrees F and under standard gravitational force (980.665 cm.

A common analogy is a garden hose: Volts are equivalent to the water pressure in the hose; the current is equivalent to the flow rate; and wattage is equivalent to the volume of the spout's spray.