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Industrial lubricants
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Industrial lubricants
AC fine test dust (ACFTD)
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A test contaminant used to assess both philtres and the contaminant sensitivity of all types of tribological mechanisms.
Accumulator
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A container in which fluid is stored under pressure as a source of fluid power.
Acid number
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
The quantity of base, expressed in milligrammes of potassium hydroxide, that is required to neutralise the acidic constituents in 1 g of sample.
Adhesion
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
The property of a lubricant that causes it to cling or adhere to a solid surface.
Adhesive wear
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
Is often referred to as galling, scuffing, scoring, or seizing. It happens when sliding surfaces contact one another, causing fragments to be pulled from one surface and to adhere to the other.
Adsorbent philtre
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A philtre medium primarily intended to hold soluble and insoluble contaminants on its surface by molecular adhesion.
Additive stability
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
The ability of additives in the fluid to resist changes in their performance during storage or use.
