Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

cold cranking simulator

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

An intermediate shear rate viscometer that predicts the ability of an oil to permit a satisfactory cranking speed to be developed in a cold engine.

clearance bearing

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A journal bearing in which the radius of the bearing surface is greater than the radius of the journal surface.

cleveland open cup

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A flash point test in which the surface of the sample is completely open to the atmosphere, and which is therefore relatively insensitive to small traces of volatile contaminants.

coking

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The undesirable accumulation of carbon (coke) deposits in the internal combustion engine or in a refinery plant. The process of distilling a petroleum product to dryness.

cohesion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

That property of a substance that causes it to resist being pulled apart by mechanical means.

coefficient of friction

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The number obtained by dividing the friction force resisting motion between two bodies by the normal force pressing the bodies together.

A separator that divides a mixture or emulsion of two immiscible liquids using the interfacial tension between the two liquids and the difference in wetting of the two liquids on a particular porous ...