"Billions of tons of water producing 6, 000 pounds per square inch did its work, " he said.
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The hardness of conventional steel alloys is at best in the neighborhood of 1.4 million pounds per square inch.
The slide deployed at 3, 000 pounds per square inch, and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown does not seem happy.
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The fuel is air compressed to 4, 350 pounds per square inch, or 300 times the pressure of the air you breathe.
Whirlpool exerts scrubbing pressure of up to four pounds per square inch.
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The FCX stores it at 5, 000 pounds per square inch, but to give it an acceptable cruising range, engineers say you need 10, 000 psi.
The membrane is 38 microns thick, or a third as thick as a human hair, yet it can withstand pressure of 400 pounds per square inch.
Inside the reactor, pulverized coal (consisting of 80% to 96% carbon) is heated to 1, 200 degrees with steam at 500 pounds per square inch of pressure.
Hydroforming uses water pressure (up to 15, 000 pounds per square inch) to force the flat steel against a one-sided tool, achieving the same result for half the cost.
To compress the hydrogen to a manageable volume, Ford must make a fuel system good for 5, 000 pounds per square inch of pressure, using exotic techniques and materials.
At that depth, a key piece of equipment is the blowout preventer, which weighs up to 300 tons and caps the well, holding back ultrapressurized (15, 000 pounds per square inch) oil deep in the Earth.
With a new formula in hand they built a software and hardware combination that shoots ink directly onto the fabric and then seals it with 400 degrees of heat at a pressure of 100 pounds per square inch.
With down-hole temperatures of 440 degrees F. and pressures of 27, 000 pounds per square inch, such depths proved too daunting and expensive for Exxon-Mobil (XOM), which sold its Blackbeard well, at the mouth of the Mississippi, to McMoRan in 2008.
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The containment dome of the first reactor is designed to withstand pressures of only 7 pounds per square inch, compared with 50 psi in American-style reactors, leaving the Juragua dome exponentially weaker than an American reactor even in the event that the dome functions perfectly as designed, an unlikely prospect in the current situation.
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