Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Entrained air

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A mechanical mixture of air bubbles having a tendency to separate from the liquid phase.

Externally pressurised seal

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A seal that has pressure acting on the seal parts from an external independent source of supply.

The magnetic precipitation and subsequent analysis of wear debris from a fluid sample This approach involves passing a volume of fluid over a chemically treated microscope slide which is supported ...

American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A society for developing standards for materials and test methods.

American Petroleum Institute (API)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A trade association of petroleum producers, refiners, marketers, and transporters, organised for the advancement of the petroleum industry by conducting research, gathering and disseminating ...

Ambient temperature

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Temperature of the area or atmosphere around a process, (not the operating temperature of the process itself).

Alkali

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Any substance having basic (as opposed to acidic) properties. In a restricted sense it is applied to the hydroxides of ammonium, lithium, potassium and sodium. Alkaline materials in lubricating oils ...