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Meanings of pound per square inch in English
Russian
фунт-сила на квадратный дюйм Portuguese
libras por polegada quadrada Spanish
psig Catalan
lliura per polzada quadrada 
Unit of pressure or stress.
Related terms
Usage of pound per square inch in English
1
At this speed the pressure of the air was about half a pound per square inch.
2
A pressure of one pound per square inch is exerted by a column of water 2.3093 feet or 27.71 inches high at 62 degrees Fahrenheit.
3
Beginning at sea level, air weighs about 15 pounds per square inch.
4
Another common unit for pressure is the psi - pounds per square inch.
5
The steam pressure was limited to seventy-five pounds per square inch.
6
Typically, that pressure is in the neighborhood of fifty thousand pounds per square inch.
7
The boiler pressure gauge stood at two hundred and ten pounds per square inch.
8
The shelters were designed to withstand a blast of 140 pounds per square inch.
9
The consequent compressive stress may be from 800 to a thousand pounds per square inch.
10
The boiler was made to work at a pressure of 140 pounds per square inch.
11
There, some seven miles down, the pressures rise to over sixteen thousand pounds per square inch.
12
Steam is supplied from four boilers loaded to a pressure of 160 pounds per square inch.
13
The steam pressure used is 110 pounds per square inch; and the engine has a Buckley condenser.
14
As stipulated, he cannot decrease the pressure inside the straw to below zero pounds per square inch.
15
Nickel aluminum has a tensile strength of 40,000 pounds per square inch.
16
Vapor pressure results did not exceed 15 pounds per square inch (psi) in the NDPC report.
Translations for pound per square inch
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