Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Fuel dilution

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The amount of raw, unburned fuel that ends up in the crankcase of an engine. It lowers an oil's viscosity and flash point, creating friction-related wear almost immediately by reducing film strength.

Friction

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The resisting force encountered at the common boundary between two bodies when, under the action of an external force, one body, moves or tends to move relative to the surface of the other.

Fretting corrosion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Can take place when two metals are held in contact and subjected to repeated small sliding, relative motions. Other names for this type of corrosion include wear oxidation, friction oxidation, ...

Incompatible fluids

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Fluids which when mixed in a system, will have a deleterious effect on that system, its components or its operation.

Immiscible

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Incapable of being mixed without separation of phases. Water and petroleum oil are immiscible under most conditions, although they can be made miscible with the addition of an emulsifier.

Image analyzer

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A sophisticated microscopic system involving a microscope, a television camera, a dedicated computer, and a viewing monitor similar to a television screen.

Hypoid gears

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Gears in which the pinion axis intersects the plane of the ring gear at a point below the ring-gear axle and above the outer edge of the ring gear, or above the ring-gear axle and below the outer ...