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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Pressure.
See also changes related to Pressure, or pages that link to Pressure or to this page or whose text contains "Pressure".

Parent topics

  • Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
  • Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
  • Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. [e]
  • Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems [e]

Subtopics

  • Gas compressor [r]: A machine that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. [e]
  • Partial pressure [r]: The pressure which each gas in a gas mixture would have if it alone occupied the same volume at the same temperature. [e]
  • Vapor pressure [r]: The pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its liquid or solid phase. [e]

Units

Other related topics

  • Boiling point [r]: The temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the external environmental pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid initiates boiling. [e]
  • Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure [r]: The temperature and pressure conditions that define the density of a gas and serve to document a stated gas volume. [e]
  • Temperature [r]: A fundamental quantity in physics - describes how warm or cold a system is. [e]
  • U.S. customary units [r]: The units of measurement that are currently used in the United States. [e]