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Industrial lubricants
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Industrial lubricants
Hydrodynamic lubrication
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A system of lubrication in which the shape and relative motion of the sliding surfaces causes the formation of a fluid film having sufficient pressure to separate the surfaces.
Carbon residue
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
Coked material remaining after an oil has been exposed to high temperatures under controlled conditions.
Carbon deposit
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
Solid black residue in piston grooves which can interfere with piston ring movement leading to wear and/or loss of power.
Carbon
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A non-metallic element - No. 6 in the periodic table. Diamonds and graphite are pure forms of carbon. Carbon is a constituent of all organic compounds. It also occurs in combined form in many ...
Capillary viscometer
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A viscometer in which the oil flows through a capillary tube.
Capillarity
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
A property of a solid-liquid system manifested by the tendency of the liquid in contact with the solid to rise above or fall below the level of the surrounding liquid; this phenomenon is seen in a ...
Cutting wear
Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants
Comes about when hard surface asperities or hard particles that have embedded themselves into a soft surface and plough grooves into the opposing harder surface, e.g., a journal.
