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pressure-treated wood

(Encyclopedia)pressure-treated wood, wood that has had a liquid preservative forced into it in order to protect against deterioration due to rot or insect attack. The most commonly used preservatives are chromated ...

Réaumur temperature scale

(Encyclopedia)Réaumur temperature scale: see temperature. ...

centigrade temperature scale

(Encyclopedia)centigrade temperature scale: see Celsius temperature scale. ...

STP

(Encyclopedia)STP or standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions for measurement of the properties of matter. The standard temperature is the freezing point of pure water, 0℃ or 273.15K. The standard...

high blood pressure

(Encyclopedia)high blood pressure: see hypertension. ...

international gold standard

(Encyclopedia)international gold standard: see international monetary system. ...

temperature-humidity index

(Encyclopedia)temperature-humidity index: see humidity. ...

low-temperature fusion

(Encyclopedia)low-temperature fusion: see cold fusion. ...

boiling point

(Encyclopedia)boiling point, temperature at which a substance changes its state from liquid to gas. A stricter definition of boiling point is the temperature at which the liquid and vapor (gas) phases of a substanc...

vaporization

(Encyclopedia)vaporization, change of a liquid or solid substance to a gas or vapor. There is fundamentally no difference between the terms gas and vapor, but gas is used commonly to describe a substance that appea...