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- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
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increase the pressure in or of
The captain will pressurize the cabin for the passengers' comfort -
maintain a certain pressure
the airplane cabin is pressurized
pressurize a space suit
How To Use pressurise In A Sentence
- December 14th, 2008 at 7: 53 pm looking for 10000 says: looking for 10000 … ashman pressurize: precipitately, censored: autonavigators, … Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
- We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
- The envelope is a helium gas cell, with an air ballonet which is pressurized by a ballonet fan.
- These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
- ECLS design can be optimized for operability and common fan designs when sized for 4 persons. 4 person configuration is more robust and safer and allows more robust design solutions and ISS will get more pressurized cargo capability. 6 person capability is still available since Orion didn't change the OML and Orion can always be re-configured to carry 6 persons. Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch
- A recent such program drew about two dozen pilots of high-performance and turbocharged Mooneys for a weekend in Washington, D.C. Some of the airplanes this group flies - all unpressurized - have service ceilings as high as 28,000 feet.
- The "fume" or "smell" events occur when oil seeps from faulty engine oil seals into the compressor bleed air used to ventilate and pressurise the cabin. HEADLINES
- Several whole windows would have to be blasted out before a plane would depressurize enough to threaten life within the cabin.
- So police officers are being compromised by being pressurised to lie and then being pressurised to drive in a way that could result in death or bodily injury to themselves or to innocent members of public who you have sworn to protect all so that someone snotty superintendent can get a bung from the Home Office Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG