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ABRASION - The wearing away of a surface by
rubbing, as with sandpaper on wood.
ABRASION RESISTANCE - The ability of a
material to resist surface wear.
ABRASIVE EROSION - Erosive wear caused by
the relative motion of solid particles which are
entrained in a fluid, moving nearly parallel to a
solid surface.
ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY - Amount of moisture in
the air, indicated in kg/kg of dry air.
ABSOLUTE PRESSURE - Total pressure
measured from an absolute vacuum. It equals
the sum of the gauge pressure and the
atmospheric pressure corresponding to the
barometer.
ABSOLUTE PRESSURE - Air at standard
conditions (70F air at sea level with a
barometric pressure of 29.92 in Hg) exerts a
pressure of 14.696 psi. This is the pressure in a
system when the pressure gauge reads zero.
So the absolute pressure of a system is the
gauge pressure in pounds per square inch
added to the atmospheric pressure of 14.696
psi (use 14.7 psi in environmental system
work) and the symbol is "psia".
ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE SCALE - A scale of
temperature measurement in which zero
degrees is absolute zero.
ABSOLUTE VELOCITY - The vector sum of the
velocity of a fluid parcel relative to the earth
and the velocity of the parcel due to the earth's
rotation; the east-west component is the only
one affected.
ABSOLUTE ZERO - A hypothetical temperature
at which there is total absence of heat. Since
heat is a result of energy caused by molecular
motion, there is no motion of molecules with
respect to each other at absolute zero. It is
theoretically the coldest possible temperature.
ABSOLUTE ZERO TEMPERATURE - Temperature
measured from absolute zero (-459.67F, or 273.16C).
ABSORBENT - A material which, due to an
affinity for certain substances, extracts one or
CLOSED FEED WATER HEATER - An indirectcontact feed water heater. Steam and water
are separated by tubes.
GFI, GFCI - Ground fault (circuit) interrupter a device that senses ground faults and reacts
by opening the circuit.
HARDNESS - The scale-forming and latherinhibiting qualities which water, high in calcium
and magnesium ions, possesses.
HARDNESS CONTROL - An action designed to
remove hardness and at the same time to
produce an equivalent amount of suspended
solids.
HARDNESS OF CALCIUM CARBONATE - The
expression ascribed to the value obtained when
the hardness-forming salts are calculated in
terms of equivalent quantities of calcium
carbonate; a convenient method of reducing all
salts to a common basic for comparison.
HEAD - The measure of the pressure of water
expressed in feet of height of water: 1 psi =
2.31 feet of water.
HEAD DYNAMIC OR TOTAL - In flowing fluid,
the sum of the static and velocity heads at the
point of measurement.
HEAD PRESSURE - Pressure which exists in
condensing side of refrigerating system.
IMPULSE PRINCIPLE -