Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Cryogenics

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The branch of physics relating to the production and effects of very low temperatures.

Crown

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The top of the piston in an internal combustion engine above the fire ring, exposed to direct flame impingement.

An analytical technique whereby a complex substance is adsorbed on a solid or liquid substrate and progressively eluted by a flow of a substance (the eluant) in which the components of the substance ...

Catastrophic failure

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Sudden, unexpected failure of a machine resulting in considerable cost and downtime.

Cavitation

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Formation of an air or vapour pocket (or bubble) due to lowering of pressure in a liquid, often as a result of a solid body, such as a propeller or piston, moving through the liquid; also, the ...

Chlorinated wax

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Certain solid hydrocarbons treated with chlorine gas to form straight-chain hydrocarbons with a relatively high chlorine component. Chlorinated waxes are used primarily as polyvinyl chloride ...