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  2. Compression (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Compression of solids has many implications in materials science, physics and structural engineering, for compression yields noticeable amounts of stress and tension. By inducing compression, mechanical properties such as compressive strength or modulus of elasticity , can be measured.

  3. Compressibility - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility [1] or, if the temperature is held constant, the isothermal compressibility [2]) is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.

  4. Compressibility factor - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, the compressibility factor (Z), also known as the compression factor or the gas deviation factor, describes the deviation of a real gas from ideal gas behaviour. It is simply defined as the ratio of the molar volume of a gas to the molar volume of an ideal gas at the same temperature and pressure .

  5. Compression set - Wikipedia

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    Compression set A is defined as the percentage of original specimen thickness after the specimen has been left in normal (uncompressed) conditions for 30 minutes. C A, the compression set A is given by C A = [(t o - t i) / t o] * 100 where t o is the original specimen thickness and t i is the specimen thickness after testing. [2]

  6. Bulk modulus - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of uniform compression. The bulk modulus (or or ) of a substance is a measure of the resistance of a substance to bulk compression.It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to the resulting relative decrease of the volume.

  7. Compression - Wikipedia

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    Bandwidth compression, reducing effort in data transmission; Data compression, reducing the data required for information Audio compression (data), reducing the data required for audio; Compression artifact, defect in data due to compression; Image compression, of digital images; Video compression; One-way compression function, a cryptographic ...

  8. Strain energy - Wikipedia

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    In a molecule, strain energy is released when the constituent atoms are allowed to rearrange themselves in a chemical reaction. [1] The external work done on an elastic member in causing it to distort from its unstressed state is transformed into strain energy which is a form of potential energy.

  9. Langmuir–Blodgett trough - Wikipedia

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    A Langmuir–Blodgett trough (LB trough) is an item of laboratory apparatus that is used to compress monolayers of molecules on the surface of a given subphase (usually water) and to measure surface phenomena due to this compression. It can also be used to deposit single or multiple monolayers on a solid substrate.