Think of a cake. When you put it in the oven, it starts off at a particular volume and then, an hour later, it has risen to perhaps double its size. It is obvious what has happened – the air bubbles ...

The Irish scientist Robert Boyle investigated the relationship between pressure and volume in the 17th century. He trapped a bubble of air at the sealed end of a J-shaped tube using liquid mercury. He ...

Determining steady-state pressure and temperature profiles of new CO2 pipeline systems requires both accurate routines for predicting fluid properties and reliable methods of calculating, based on ...

Manufacturers of refrigerants, controls, and other suppliers distribute hundreds of thousands of pressure-temperature charts to the trade every year. It would be rare indeed to find a service ...