motive column
motive column
[′mōd·iv ‚käl·əm] (mining engineering)
The ventilating pressure in a mine in units of feet of air column; the height of a column of air whose density is the same as the air in the downcast shaft, which exerts a pressure equal to the ventilating pressure.
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