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