Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Sulfonate

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A hydrocarbon in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with the highly polar (SO2OX) group, where X is a metallic ion or alkyl radical. Petroleum sulfonates are refinery by-products of the sulfuric ...

Sulfated ash

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The ash content of fresh, compounded lubricating oil as determined by ASTM Method D 874. Indicates level of metallic additives in the oil.

Suction philtre

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A pump intake-line philtre in which the fluid is below atmospheric pressure.

Strainer

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A coarse philtre element (pore size over approximately 40 ¦m)

Straight mineral oil

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Petroleum oil containing no additives. Straight mineral oils include such diverse products as low-cost once-through lubricants and thoroughly refined white oils. Most high-quality lubricants, ...

Stoke (St)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Kinematic measurement of a fluid's resistance to flow defined by the ratio of the fluid's dynamic viscosity to its density.

Stick-slip motion

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

Erratic, noisy motion characteristic of some machine ways, due to the starting friction encountered by a machine part at each end of its back-and-form (reciprocating) movement. This undesirable ...