Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Polyalkylene glycol

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Mixtures of condensation polymers of ethylene oxide and water. They are any of a family of colourless liquids with high molecular weight that are soluble in water and in many organic solvents. They ...

Polishing

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Excessive smoothing of the surface finish of the cylinder bore or cylinder liner in an engine to a mirror-like appearance, resulting in depreciation of ring sealing and oil consumption performance.

Polar compound

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A chemical compound whose molecules exhibit electrically positive characteristics at one extremity and negative characteristics at the other. Polar compounds are used as additives in many petroleum ...

Poise

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A measure of viscosity numerically equal to the force required to move a plane surface of one square centimetre per second when the surfaces are separated by a layer of fluid one centimetre in ...

Pleated philtre

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A philtre element whose medium consists of a series of uniform folds and has the geometric form of a cylinder, cone, disc, plate, etc. Synonymous with convoluted and corrugated.

Plain bearing

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A relatively simple and inexpensive bearing typically made of two parts. A rotary plain bearing can be just a shaft running through a hole. A simple linear bearing can be a pair of flat surfaces ...

Pitting

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A form of extremely localised attack characterised by holes in the metal. Pitting is one of the most destructive and insidious forms of corrosion. Depending on the environment and the material, a pit ...