Sentences with phrase «pressure per inch»

The compactor we had exerted 40 tons of pressure per inch, but it was really slow, and we only had 90 minutes to complete this project.

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Some of those are stored as a backup, while the rest are sent to a diamond - growing lab in Amsterdam, which applies hundreds of thousands of pounds per square inch of pressure over time.

The article goes on to explain that this «frac sand» is normally high - purity quartz that can withstand between 6,000 and 14,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.

Reverse osmosis involves passing sea water through a thin - film membrane at a pressure of 1,000 to 1,500 per square inch.

To retain the texture of his company's meat products, DaBecca does not use high - pressure pasteurization (HPP), which puts several thousand pounds per square inch of pressure into packaging to kill any bacteria that are present.

The HHP technology immerses the oysters in water and subjects them to extremely high pressure, more than 40,000 pounds per square inch.

The new LX2000 desktop printer is the company's fastest one yet, running at speeds of up to 6 - inches per second to quickly produce high - quality, crisply printed pressure - sensitive labels on demand for a variety of packaging applications.

The new LX2000 desktop printer is the company's fastest one yet, running at speeds of up to 6 - inches per second to quickly produce high - quality, crisply printed pressure - sensitive labels on demand for a variety of packaging ap

A careful look at the screen will reveal that the pressure setpoint is 80,548 pounds per square inch, which is the approximate equivalent of being three miles under the sea.

PSI: PSI stands for «pounds per square inch» and is the measurement of air pressure inside a tire.

Their study was conducted at 60 pounds per square inch of pressure and nearly -300 degrees Fahrenheit.

In 1955, however, labs at General Electric built on earlier research to create diamonds from graphite, another carbon allotrope, that had been subjected to extremes of pressure (nearly 1 million pounds per square inch) and temperature (3,100 degrees Fahrenheit).

Performance upgrades include new buoyancy foam that can withstand the 9,552 pounds per square inch of pressure that exists four miles down — giving scientists access to 98 percent of the ocean.

He might ask how much pressure this coupling could probably take (6,000 pounds per square inch), how much it probably sells for ($ 300), and what would happen if it were decoupled under pressure (nothing — this one is double self - sealing, so both ends close when it is pulled apart).

That pressure can be as little as a few pounds per square inch (psi), says Jens - Erik Lund Snee, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford and lead author of a Texas stress map published in October 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters.

This beast can simulate the mind - boggling conditions on the surface of Venus: it is able to create pressures of 1,350 pounds per square inch — 90 times Earth's air pressure at sea level — and temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

The carbon dioxide in champagne bottles creates 90 pounds of pressure per square inch, three times the pressure in automobile tires.

The balloon is inflated to a pressure of 220 pounds per square inch for about 30 seconds, expanding the stent to full size, generally.12 of an inch in diameter.

Compressed Air The Alabama Energy Cooperative opened a compressed - air energy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per square inch.

One camera spotted a cluster of 19 snailfish darting around bait like goldfish in a pond despite near - freezing cold, total darkness, and water pressure of five tons per square inch.

The experimental SUV has hydraulic brakes that pump nitrogen gas to pressures of up to 500 pounds per square inch when the driver decelerates, essentially bottling up the vehicle's lost kinetic energy.

A single sphere's shell can withstand pressure of over 25,000 pounds per square inch (PSI) before it ruptures — one hundred times the maximum pressure in a fire hose.

The concrete mix can withstand pressure of up to 15,000 pounds per square inch and is the toughest ever used for a New York City building.

A BP technician read off pressure readings to those in the intervention room: 8,000 pounds per square inch; 7,000 pounds per square inch; 6,000 pounds per square inch (psi).

They live in water that hovers just above freezing and that exerts pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch.

Fisher's pen makes up for a lack of gravity by storing ink in a cartridge pressurized with nitrogen at 35 pounds per square inch — more than twice as much force as sea - level atmospheric pressure on Earth.

To counter the osmotic pressure that arises between the solutions and force water back through the membrane, desalinization plants must utilize high pressures of 7,000 to 8,300 kilopascals (71 to 86.5 kilogram - force per square centimeter or 1,000 to 1,200 pounds per square inch), he notes.

Nearly 1,500 softball - size hollow ceramic spheres [2] packed into the vehicle's two hulls provide buoyancy and help it withstand up to 15,000 pounds per square inch of water pressure.

For two decades, Agee dispatched a variety of elaborate presses and heating mechanisms to crush samples at pressures up to 3.5 million pounds per square inch and temperatures approaching 4,500 degrees.

The resulting mudlike slurry is then pumped under 400 pounds per square inch of pressure to the plant's most novel feature, the 300 - foot - tall gasification tower.

This model is the first to include wall fibers and also reflected the tremendous internal pressure of a plant cell — 90 pounds per square inch, about the same pressure as a road - bike tire.

Cheong and his co-workers» tests showed that the prototype sensor was also highly pressure sensitive, providing pressure readings with a resolution of 0.17 pounds per square inch (1,172 pascals).

The only thing standing between the escape of nuclear steam and a possible chain of events leading to a meltdown was an internal liner of stainless steel just three sixteenths of an inch (0.48 centimeter) thick that had slowly bent out about an eighth of an inch (0.32 centimeter) into the cavity due to the constant 2,200 pound - per — square - inch (155 - kilogram - per - square - centimeter) pressure.

The silicon layers, which span nearly a millimeter in width, can stand up to a full atmosphere of pressure (15 pounds per square inch) without bending or breaking.

Air pressure decreases with an increase of altitude - about one millibar (0.03 inches of mercury) per 27 feet (8.23 m) close to sea level.

Manual lymph drainage uses a specific amount of pressure (less than 9 ounces per square inch or about 4 kPa) and rhythmic circular movements to stimulate lymph flow.

Wrote Stitt: «Proteins are very similar to certain toxins in molecular structure, and the puffing process of putting the grain under fifteen hundred pounds per square inch of pressure and then releasing it may produce chemical changes which turn a nutritious grain into a poisonous substance.»

For the average sized person, that can easily add up to more pressure per square inch than an elephant experiences while walking around bare - foot all day.

Trauma, inflammatory responses, and / or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc..)

Specifically, this rulemaking will assess the merits of a petition for rulemaking submitted by the Attorney General of the State of New York regarding vapor pressure standards for the transportation of crude oil to implement a RVP limit of 9.0 pounds per square inch (psi), for crude oil transported by rail.

The tire - pressure monitor reflected the issue: While the front Pilot Sports went up marginally by about 1.5 pounds per square inch, the rear gumballs jumped by almost 6 psi.

The NYAG petition requests that PHMSA implement a Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) limit less than 9.0 pounds per square inch (psi) for crude oil transported by rail.

Pounds per square inch — the measurement of pressure that results from a specified amount of gas in a limited volume.

Tire pressure is calculated using a measurement called pounds per square inch, or PSI.

On the Ford Explorer, the vehicle that uses the most of the three Firestone tire models, owners should make sure that the air pressure is 30 pounds per square inch (psi) in the front tires and 35 psi in the rear tires on models made from 1991 to 1999.

A common - rail fuel injection system precisely optimizes performance and fuel efficiency, while a high - pressure 29,000 pounds per square inch injection calibration enables smoother, quieter operation with reduced emissions.

Water flow and pressure testing will establish gallons per minute (GPM) and pounds per square inch (PSI).

They exert between 150 - 200 pounds of pressure per square inch.

Fun Fact: Rottweilers have the strongest bite, at 328 pounds per square inch of bite pressure, it's no wonder these dogs are great at protection work!

There is no accurate test to measure the PSI (pressure per square inch) of a Pit Bull or any other breed of dog.