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pressure chamber

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pressure chamber [′presh·ər ‚chām·bər]
(engineering)
A chamber in which an artificial environment is established at low or high pressures to test equipment under simulated conditions of operation.
(mining engineering)
An enclosed space that seals off a part of a mine and in which the air pressure can be raised or lowered.


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This allows aviators to learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of hypoxia without being subjected to an actual change in altitude in a pressure chamber.
In order to further test the effect of local curvature on the transition of the pressure chamber to the cuff-model interface, we deformed a cylindrical 100-mm-diameter tube so as to obtain an ellipsoidal model with a 112-mm long axis and an 86-mm short axis.
The pressure chamber is sealed by the intermeshing gearing and the screw flight.
 
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