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October 8, 2022

Gas Laws

Gas Laws

The ‘Gas Laws’ is an umbrella term for 4 principles that sought to explain the relationship of gases to volume, temperature and pressure.
They’re more than 200-years old so it may seem a curious topic for a technical article in 2017, but I often find it’s useful to revisit ‘First Principles’

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October 8, 2022

Humidity 2

Humidity 2

Humidity is one of those subjects that most people have a cursory knowledge of, but in fact is far more complex than it appears at first glance
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October 8, 2022

Gas Safety

It’s September, so we’re one month away from the Bathurst 1000 race. I don’t do sports, but I do, do engineering. I like Motorsports because of this and because of excellence (I’m looking at you Lewis Hamilton).… Read more

October 8, 2022

Humidity

Humidity – What Is It?

Humidity is something we hear about daily in weather reports. Humidity is to blame for that muggy, steam-room feeling you experience on certain summer days.

Humidity can be measured in several ways, but relative humidity is the most common. In order to understand relative humidi… Read more

October 8, 2022

Incomprehensible!

Incomprehensible!

A million is a really big number, let alone a billion.

In engineering we get used to big numbers but it means we can become blasé about them.

Watching Apples hyperbolic release of the iPhone 11 last month has me pondering the ineffable.

In their new A12 CPU there are 8.9 billion transi

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October 8, 2022

Industrial v Retail Cyanoacrylates

Industrial v Retail Cyanoacrylates

What is the difference between industrial and retail Ethyl Cyanoacrylate?

The difference between industrial cyanoacrylates and the instant adhesives you find in a retail store is purity and variety.

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October 8, 2022

Level Applications

Level Applications

Whether it is powders, solids or liquids, one must often measure the level of a product and control its ingress and egress.

From high tech guided radar to low tech, yet extremely effective, rotating paddle & float types, there are a variety of options to chose from.

Examples of t

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October 8, 2022

Lung Pressure

Lung Pressure

When I started at Homershams 11 years ago, pressure was the parameter I knew almost nothing about.  I knew tyres were pressurised to about 30 psi (206 kPa) and that was about it!

In the intervening years, it’s become one of my favourite measures, not least because of the fact that I slee

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