What is "gas pressure"

Usage examples of "gas pressure".

As the weapon is gas operated, it is critical that the correct amount of gas pressure be available at the gas port in the barrel to cycle the action for the next round.

His solution was a cartridge case with a brass base that would expand to seal the breech, then contract when the gas pressure in the barrel fell after the bullet left the muzzle.

They attached three power cables along with four hoses that would maintain the gas pressure in the fuel and oxidizer tanks—.

It burns rapidly, building up gas pressure which ejects a bullet from the mouth of a shell and drives it through the barrel of a weapon, after having been ignited by the primer, which does the actual exploding when the firing pin is driven into it.

The gas pressure was still working at the stove in the kitchenette, and he made the fresh eggs his chief dish for dinner.

One of them was the next item on the day's calendar - a bill which proposed that the governor negotiate a treaty with the gnomes, under which the gnomes would aid the petroleum engineers in prospecting and, in addition, would advise humans in drilling methods so as to maintain the natural gas pressure underground needed to raise the oil to the surface.

Like a knife cutting open an orange, it simply went around the dome's edge, the great dome lifted like the lid of a teapot under the enormous gas pressure remaining -- then dropped under its own weight.

Like a knife cutting open an orange, it simply went around the dome's edge, the great dome lifted like the lid of a teapot under the enormous gas pressure remainingthen dropped under its own weight.

Human vocal cords function under normal gas pressure of 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent nitrogen.

Otherwise the gas pressure inside would tend to keep the suit blown up in an erect position and movement while wearing the suit would be very fatiguing.

In any event, the gas pressure inside the Wheel cavity had been dropping steadily for years.

The internal gas pressure crept slowly up to one thirtieth of an atmosphere.

A pulsar is the end state of a massive star, a sun shrunk to the size of a city, held up as no other stars are, not by gas pressure, not by electron degeneracy, but by nuclear forces.