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