If I take 7 lbs. of air pressure out of a balloon and replace it with 3 lbs. of air pressure, is the balloon inflated or deflated from its previous state?
The new command centre, in a secret location, will clearly be highly vulnerable to air attack by the regime - something that could increase pressure for some kind of international air cover for the "liberated areas", our correspondent says.
Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
The fuel is air compressed to 4, 350 pounds per square inch, or 300 times the pressure of the air you breathe.
When water velocity is high, the pressure within the liquid drops to below the vapour pressure of water, allowing tiny air bubbles to expand.
The lower air pressure reduces the effectiveness of breaking pitches and lets balls travel farther.
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"The cabin pressure of being at 35, 000 feet in the air means you lose about 10% of your taste buds, " he says.
The smell of new elections was in the air as members of Knesset from all parties came under enormous public pressure to vote no confidence in the government.
It uses no other motors, and the strength of the grasp is controlled by a change in air pressure, making the hand quite dextrous.
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Since the amount of oxygen the paint gets depends on the air pressure, the greater the pressure, the less the paint glows.
The financial and logistical pressure of supplying the Jaffna peninsula by sea and air will have been lifted.
During the dive, which takes up to four hours due to the high density of the water (it is filled with certain chemicals plus air pressure to simulate the circumstances found in space), the cosmonauts in training practice space walking -- and may lose a few kilos off their waist line in the strenuous process.
Kamholz was accused of instructing an employee, prior to a 2009 inspection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to conceal the fact that an unreported pressure relief emitted coke oven gas directly in the air, a violation of its operating permit.
The biggest hurdle was that the plastic had to be strong enough to hold the positive pressure of air pumped in, says Michael Metta, Sealed Air's technology chief.
More has been spent on airports recently, thanks to aid from America and to the pressure of international air-safety groups, which try to ensure that aircraft landing fees are not spirited away by governments.
At Sunday's jump altitude, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply.
Gravity bombs are designed to be dropped from planes and must be able to withstand vibrations and changes in air temperature and pressure during the course of a flight.
Atmospheric pressure is caused by the weight of the air over our heads.
As an aircraft flies it creates waves of pressure as it pushes its way through the air.
The strength of the high-tech material allows airlines to raise cabin air pressure and increase humidity, which should make passengers more comfortable on long flights.
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An ideal one would keep the same rate regardless of variation in power supply, temperature, air pressure, magnetic fields, or any other disturbing influences.
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Then, seemingly tired, she squints at the afternoon sun, hesitating before cracking her jaws in the yawning attitude of a passenger in a plane clearing her ears of accumulated air pressure.
Although Air France walked away from the Alitalia deal in the face of strong political pressure, the harsh environment for airlines means that it is still likely to want to pursue consolidation elsewhere in the sector.
This tracks the difference in air pressure between Iceland and the Azores and, during the winter months, determines the strength of the winds, temperatures and rainfall in the St Kilda archipelago.
But in pressure-sensitive paints, excited luminescent molecules dump some of their energy into the oxygen in the air in a way that prevents them from lighting up.
Mrs Christoffersen is a leading member of a pressure group seeking to persuade air operators to conduct research into DVT and to improve conditions for passengers in the meantime.
Meteorologists were blaming the nor'easter on the collision of two storm systems: cold air traveling south from Canada bumping into a moist low pressure system heading north from the Carolinas.
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