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relief valves

n. (relief valve English)

Usage examples of "relief valves".

The reactor's main relief valves triggered, venting hydrogen to space.

He quickly began spinning relief valves to let off the immense pressure in preparation for the coming collision.

Sometimes you have to replace a little that has escaped through relief valves.

A few fixtures operate directly off the high-pressure line by means of pressure-relief valves.

Otherwise it would have been possible to put this and all the other ships completely out of commission by opening the pressure-relief valves and letting all the air escape to space.

The corporal guided Sean through three more checkpoints, then down a shortcut through the towering silver domes of Shepherd Center's number two tank farm, where vapor clouds plumed from pressure relief valves high overhead.

But the same couldn't be said for the hissing of pressure relief valves or the metallic clanks and stridencies that prefaced the slow rise of the pod's uncommonly large, circular forward hatch.

She put the stethoscope to his right chest, heard air going in, saw that both the flutter and relief valves she’.

The flux control coils on my Hellrails are damaged beyond repair, preventing normal operation, but a buss short across selected circuits will pass through the damaged coil, energizing plasma vented though my secondary relief valves.