1 Beginning at sea level, air weighs about 15 pounds per square inch .
2 Another common unit for pressure is the psi - pounds per square inch .
3 The steam pressure was limited to seventy-five pounds per square inch .
4 Typically, that pressure is in the neighborhood of fifty thousand pounds per square inch .
5 The boiler pressure gauge stood at two hundred and ten pounds per square inch .
6 The shelters were designed to withstand a blast of 140 pounds per square inch .
7 The consequent compressive stress may be from 800 to a thousand pounds per square inch .
8 The boiler was made to work at a pressure of 140 pounds per square inch .
9 There, some seven miles down, the pressures rise to over sixteen thousand pounds per square inch .
10 Steam is supplied from four boilers loaded to a pressure of 160 pounds per square inch .
11 The steam pressure used is 110 pounds per square inch ; and the engine has a Buckley condenser.
12 As stipulated, he cannot decrease the pressure inside the straw to below zero pounds per square inch .
13 Nickel aluminum has a tensile strength of 40,000 pounds per square inch .
14 Vapor pressure results did not exceed 15 pounds per square inch (psi) in the NDPC report.
15 The result made him tingle as though the air-pressure had dropped suddenly by five pounds per square inch .
16 The monstrous device once measured fluid pressures in increments of tens of thousands of pounds per square inch .
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