Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Compressibility

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A compound that enhances some property of, or imparts some new property to, the base fluid. In some hydraulic fluid formulations, the additive volume may constitute as much as 20 percent of the final ...

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 philtre at specified conditions. Used as an indication of ...

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 centre to that at top dead center.

Compounding

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The addition of fatty oils and similar materials to lubricants to impart special properties. Lubricating oils to which such materials have been added are known as compounded oils.