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partial pressures

n. (plural of partial pressure English)

Usage examples of "partial pressures".

He would start at the blackboard, sounding like a particularly characterless Al, and behind his back they would roll their eyes and make faces as he droned on about partial pressures or infrared rays.

But in this scorched realm, those partial pressures raised enormous questions.

The partial pressures of the various co-existing atmospheres never added up to much more than Earth-normal unity.

Your people's hemoglobin was redesigned and your circulatory system responds to different partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

They flooded its chamber of crystal with benign fluids in various proportions, with gases at different partial pressures.

By regulating the partial pressures of the gases, one could go quite deep.

Oxygen and nitrogen are lesser constituents: their partial pressures do not amount to very much more than on Earth.