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Definition of Gas pressure

1. Noun. The pressure exerted by a gas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Pressure

Literary usage of Gas pressure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The gas-pressure of a gas is proportional to the concentration of the gas. Having found this one relation between osmotic pressure and gas-pressure, ..."

2. Geology of Petroleum by William Harvey Emmons (1921)
"In Pennsylvania, according to IC White,1 the gas pressure generally increases ... The gas pressure moreover, is evidently not everywhere a reactive pressure ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... system when the gas pressure is t)} in. is 300 candle power with an hourly consumption of ю cub. ft. of gas, equivalent to 30 candles per cubic fool, ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"CHAPTER II GASES LAWS OF GAS-PRESSURE Properties of Gases. —We know matter in three states of aggregation : gas, liquid, and solid. ..."

5. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"Air is a mixture of gases, and according to the mechanical theory of gas-pressure each constituent exerts a pressure corresponding to the proportion of that ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1898)
"AN EFFICIENT GAS-PRESSURE REGULATOR. BY PAUL MURRILL. Received April 18,1898. IT is well known that the various types of mercury ..."

7. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The water pressure of a city system is not uniform any more than the gas pressure in a gas system. In suburban districts the Gas Pusher is used to send gas ..."

8. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1908)
"The next general opinion expressed was that gas pressure is caused by water pressure, the assumption being that rainwater constantly falling upon the ..."

9. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The gas-pressure of a gas is proportional to the concentration of the gas. Having found this one relation between osmotic pressure and gas-pressure, ..."

10. Geology of Petroleum by William Harvey Emmons (1921)
"In Pennsylvania, according to IC White,1 the gas pressure generally increases ... The gas pressure moreover, is evidently not everywhere a reactive pressure ..."

11. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... system when the gas pressure is t)} in. is 300 candle power with an hourly consumption of ю cub. ft. of gas, equivalent to 30 candles per cubic fool, ..."

12. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"CHAPTER II GASES LAWS OF GAS-PRESSURE Properties of Gases. —We know matter in three states of aggregation : gas, liquid, and solid. ..."

13. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"Air is a mixture of gases, and according to the mechanical theory of gas-pressure each constituent exerts a pressure corresponding to the proportion of that ..."

14. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1898)
"AN EFFICIENT GAS-PRESSURE REGULATOR. BY PAUL MURRILL. Received April 18,1898. IT is well known that the various types of mercury ..."

15. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The water pressure of a city system is not uniform any more than the gas pressure in a gas system. In suburban districts the Gas Pusher is used to send gas ..."

16. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1908)
"The next general opinion expressed was that gas pressure is caused by water pressure, the assumption being that rainwater constantly falling upon the ..."

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