Sentence examples for tons per square from inspiring English sources

Four miles down, it amounts to nearly five tons per square inch.

Suspended sediment transport on the Huang He equals a denudation rate of about 3,090 tons per square kilometre (8,000 tons per square mile) per year; the corresponding rate for the Ganges-Brahmaputra is almost half as great.

At the resting place of the Titanic, more than two miles down, the pressure is 2.8 tons per square inch.

In the Challenger Deep, the waters overhead exert a downward pressure of more than eight tons per square inch.

Extraordinarily high rates have been recorded for some lesser rivers: for instance, 1,060 tons per square kilometre per year on the Jing and 1,080 tons per square kilometre per year on the Luo, both of which are Loess Plateau tributaries of the Huang He.

Time will tell how his craft handles the greater stresses of the Challenger Deep, where the waters overhead press down with a pressure of more than eight tons per square inch.

At the wellhead, roughly a mile down, that translates into a pressure of more than one ton per square inch.

Within five minutes, the bag had formed a skin over the panel, exerting a pressure of one ton per square foot.

Mr Gordon's historical account is full of interesting details, such as the amount of excrement that horses used to deposit on city streets ("between 5 and 10 tons per urban square mile").

They can withstand twelve tons of force per square inch.

The medallion itself, a polished nickel-bronze with silver plating, is stamped by a hydraulic press below Canal Street that exerts 450 tons of pressure per square inch.