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  2. Plug door - Wikipedia

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    A plug door is a door designed to seal itself by taking advantage of pressure difference on its two sides and is typically used on aircraft with cabin pressurization. The higher pressure on one side forces the usually wedge -shaped door into its socket to create a seal, which prevents it from being opened until the pressure is equalised on both ...

  3. Evacuation slide - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill. An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would be unable to step down from the door uninjured (Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on all ...

  4. Propelling nozzle - Wikipedia

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    The gas accelerates to a final exit velocity which depends on the pressure and temperature at entry to the nozzle, the ambient pressure it exhausts to (unless the flow is choked), and the efficiency of the expansion. [5] The efficiency is a measure of the losses due to friction, non-axial divergence as well as leakage in C-D nozzles. [6]

  5. Why You Should Always Close the Interior Doors in Your Home ...

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    This may sound like simple advice, but when a storm brings strong winds, homes are under extreme pressure. When wind enters through any open door or window, it can create even more pressure on the ...

  6. This is why you should always close the interior doors in ...

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    Closing your interior doors can help disperse pressure throughout the home and reduce the overall force stacked up against your roof -- basically your first line of defense against Mother Nature.

  7. Blowout preventer - Wikipedia

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    The column of drilling mud exerts downward hydrostatic pressure to counter opposing pressure from the formation being drilled, allowing drilling to proceed. When a kick (influx of formation fluid ) occurs, rig operators or automatic systems close the blowout preventer units, sealing the annulus to stop the flow of fluids out of the wellbore.

  8. Siphon - Wikipedia

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    If pressure is removed from the bottom end, the liquid flow will reverse, illustrating that it is pressure driving the siphon. An everyday illustration of this is the siphon coffee brewer, which works as follows (designs vary; this is a standard design, omitting coffee grounds):

  9. Buffer stop - Wikipedia

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    A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track. The design of the buffer stop is dependent, in part, on the kind of couplings that the railway uses, since the coupling gear is the first part of the vehicle that the buffer stop ...