Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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contaminant capacity

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The weight of a specified artificial contaminant that must be added to the influent to produce a given differential pressure across a filter at specified conditions. Used as an indication of relative ...

contaminant

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Any foreign or unwanted substance that can have a negative effect on system operation, life or reliability.

consistency

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The degree to which a semisolid material such as grease resists deformation. (See ASTM designation D 217. ) Sometimes used qualitatively to denote viscosity of liquids.

compressor

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A device which converts mechanical force and motion into pneumatic fluid power.

compression ratio

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

In an internal combustion engine, the ratio of the volume of combustion space at bottom dead center to that at top dead center.

capillarity

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A property of a solid-liquid system manifested by the tendency of the liquid in contact with the solid to rise above or fall below the level of the surrounding liquid; this phenomenon is seen in a ...

cutting wear

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Comes about when hard surface asperities or hard particles that have embedded themselves into a soft surface and plough grooves into the opposing harder surface, e.g., a journal.