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critical pressure

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critical pressure
n.
The least applied pressure required at the critical temperature to liquefy a gas.

critical pressure
n
(Physics / General Physics) the pressure of a gas or the saturated vapour pressure of a substance in its critical state

critical pressure
The pressure of a substance at its critical point.


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Although fracture models relating critical pressure for gas-pressurized pipe to effective fracture toughness exist, they are complicated and nontransparent.
The modular control system will use AlarmPager[TM] to call out to cell phones and pagers whenever a critical pressure or temperature is exceeded, and will call until it gets a response from one of the people being paged.
A pulsating behavior of the gas flow through a capillary into a liquid was discovered to occur at critical pressure (Agrest et al.
 
 
 
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