compressing's Usage Examples:

As a matter of experience, it is found that caking coals lose that property when exposed to the action of the air for a lengthened period, or by heating to about 300° C., and that the dust or slack of non-caking coal may, in some instances, be converted into a coherent coke by exposing it suddenly to a very high temperature, or compressing it strongly before charging it into the oven.

Spring has shown that by compressing a finely divided mixture of i 5 parts of bismuth, 8 parts of lead, 4 parts of tin and 3 parts of cadmium, an alloy is pro duced which melts at ioo C., that is, much below the meltingpoint of any of the four metals.

Guncotton in an air-dry state, whether in the original form or after grinding to pulp and compressing, burns with very great rapidity but does not detonate unless confined.

An iron tube, having its ends closed by brass caps, was placed inside a compressing vessel into which water was forced until the pressure upon the outer surface of the tube reached 250 atmospheres.

Plantation rubber comes into commerce in the form of the crinkled ribbons known as crepe, in sheets or biscuits, and sometimes in large blocks made by compressing the crepe rubber.

A metal vessel was placed in a calorimeter and air forced into it, the amount of energy expended in compressing the air being measured.

You'll need to gently press it into place, without compressing it, which could decrease its insulating power.

In this there is no compressing pump, and the main pressure of the working air is simply that of the atmosphere.

The method of compressing tea into tablets 8 or bricks is unfamiliar in western Europe.

Mayer made an assumption the converse of that of Seguin, asserting that the whole of the work done in compressing the air was converted into heat, and neglecting the possibility of heat being consumed in doing work within the air itself or being produced by the transformation of internal potential energy.

Synonyms:

crush, constriction, press, crunch, condensing, pressing, pressure, condensation, compaction, squeeze, compression, squeezing,

Antonyms:

unclasp, decompress, undercharge, refrain, decompression,