Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

straight mineral oil

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Petroleum oil containing no additives. Straight mineral oils include such diverse products as low-cost once-through lubricants and thoroughly refined white oils. Most high-quality lubricants, ...

stoke (St)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Kinematic measurement of a fluid's resistance to flow defined by the ratio of the fluid's dynamic viscosity to its density.

stick-slip motion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Erratic, noisy motion characteristic of some machine ways, due to the starting friction encountered by a machine part at each end of its back-and-form (reciprocating) movement. This undesirable ...

steam turbine

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam. The energy is converted into a rotary motion that drives a device.

statistical process control (SPC)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The use of control charts to track and eliminate variables in repetitive manufacturing processes, in order to ensure that the product is of consistent and predictable quality. If a chart reveals only ...