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    produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties of such lamps exist: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps...
    28 KB (3,204 words) - 13:41, 13 November 2024
  • create high pressure. High pressure usually means pressures of thousands (kilobars) or millions (megabars) of times atmospheric pressure (about 1 bar...
    5 KB (566 words) - 18:34, 10 June 2024
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    A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the...
    20 KB (2,054 words) - 19:28, 7 November 2024
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    Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects...
    9 KB (1,087 words) - 14:25, 31 October 2024
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    cooking. The high pressure limits boiling and creates higher temperatures not possible at lower pressures, allowing food to be cooked faster than at normal...
    53 KB (7,157 words) - 07:33, 4 November 2024
  • High-pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS – also known as high-pressure neurological syndrome) is a neurological and physiological diving disorder which can...
    8 KB (887 words) - 07:14, 25 September 2024
  • Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth. The standard...
    23 KB (2,408 words) - 03:53, 28 October 2024
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    as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually...
    133 KB (13,919 words) - 05:15, 18 November 2024
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    : 445  Gauge pressure (also spelled gage pressure) is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure. Various units are used to express pressure. Some of these...
    45 KB (5,661 words) - 03:34, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-performance liquid chromatography
    High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), formerly referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography, is a technique in analytical chemistry used...
    89 KB (10,999 words) - 13:19, 7 November 2024
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    works by filling a pressure vessel with hot water at high pressure and opening a valve leading to a suitable nozzle. The drop in pressure immediately boils...
    78 KB (9,755 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2024
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    Ringwoodite is a high-pressure phase of Mg2SiO4 (magnesium silicate) formed at high temperatures and pressures of the Earth's mantle between 525 and 660 km...
    20 KB (2,109 words) - 09:47, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-pressure steam locomotive
    A high-pressure steam locomotive is a steam locomotive with a boiler that operates at pressures well above what would be considered normal for other locomotives...
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    manufactured as either high- or low-pressure laminate, with the two processes not much different from each other except for the pressure applied in the pressing...
    13 KB (1,736 words) - 13:02, 3 May 2024
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    casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mold cavity. The mold cavity is created using two hardened tool...
    39 KB (4,642 words) - 01:39, 6 November 2024
  • Pressure experiments are experiments performed at pressures lower or higher than atmospheric pressure, called low-pressure experiments and high-pressure...
    2 KB (199 words) - 17:08, 4 February 2024
  • An expanding gas (usually carbon dioxide or high-pressure air) forces a paintball through the barrel at a muzzle velocity of approximately 90 m/s (300 ft/s)...
    44 KB (6,789 words) - 21:13, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blood pressure
    Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure results from the heart pumping blood...
    84 KB (8,932 words) - 21:31, 31 October 2024
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    starting electrode; instead, the lamp is started using high voltage pulses as with high-pressure sodium vapor lamps. Self-ballasted (SB) lamps are mercury-vapor...
    23 KB (2,775 words) - 01:38, 13 November 2024
  • High-pressure chemistry is concerned with those chemical processes that are carried out under high pressurepressures in the thousands of bars (100...
    2 KB (230 words) - 18:59, 17 December 2023
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