Pressures
[preʃəz]
Examples
- By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These stresses are results of the longitudinal and radial pressures of the gas developed by the ignition and explosion of the powder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In fact, Boyle had sustained the hypothesis that supposes the pressures and expansions to be in reciprocal proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The boy flying a kite has to keep his eye on the kite, and has to note the various pressures of the string on his hand. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- By means of this instrument, pressures that are otherwise inappreciable and undiscoverable may be observed and indicated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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