Sentence examples for units of pressure from inspiring English sources

Sufficient sugar is added to the basic wine to produce a pressure of about five or six atmospheres (units of pressure, each equal to 14.7 pounds per square inch) following fermentation, assuming there is no loss of carbon dioxide.

A. The freezing temperature of water drops about one degree for every 75 of the units of pressure called atmospheres, but the change is small compared with the difference even one atmosphere of pressure makes in raising the boiling point, said Dr. Alan J. Friedman, director of the New York Hall of Science in Queens.

Those who had danced in sync with one other were able to tolerate 20 additional units of pressure after the session, suggesting that their pain response had likely been dulled by the release of brain chemicals called endorphins.

(Volts are essentially units of pressure, while amps are units of volume. The simplest analogy is to water: volts would measure how hard the water rushes out of the hose, amps would measure how much water is flowing).

Organ builders often measure organ wind using a U-tube manometer containing water, so commonly give its magnitude as the difference in water levels in the two legs of the manometer, rather than in units of pressure.

Stimulus intensity is reported in units of pressure or force per area (kPa, where 1 kPa = 1 mN/mm).

Standard atmosphere, unit of pressure, equal to the mean atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Pascal (Pa), unit of pressure in the metre-kilogram-second system.

The pascal, defined as one newton per square metre (1 Pa = 0.00001 bar), is the official SI (Système International d'Unités) unit of pressure.

The (metric) unit of pressure in the scientific international system of units (known as the SI system) is newton per square metre (N/m2), where one newton (N) is the force that gives a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of 1 m/s2.

The unit of pressure is psi.