Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Additive level

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The total percentage of all additives in an oil. (Expressed in % of mass (weight) or % of volume)

Pitch line

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

An imaginary line that divides the upper and lower halves of gear teeth while in the contact area.

Pinion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The smaller of two mating or meshing gears; can be either the driving or the driven gear.

Any chemical substance derived from crude oil or its products, or from natural gas. Some petrochemical products may be identical to others produced from other raw materials such as coal and producer ...

Permeability

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The relationship of flow per unit area to differential pressure across a philtre medium.

Pascal’s Law

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A pressure applied to a confined fluid at rest is transmitted with equal intensity throughout the liquid and that pressure is considered to act at right angles to each surface contacted by the fluid.

Patch test

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A method by which a specified volume of fluid is filtered through a membrane philtre of known pore structure. All particulate matter in excess of an "average size," determined by the membrane ...