Author: R. E. BiggersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High temperatures
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Review and Bibliography on Design and Use of Windows for Optical Measurements at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures (1881-1959)
Author: R. E. BiggersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High temperatures
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: OTS Selective Bibliography
Author: Catalog of Technical Reports
Author: United States. Dept. of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Life at High Pressure
Author: Alister MacdonaldPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030675874
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The book discusses the ways in which high hydrostatic pressure (i.e. water pressure) affects all grades of life which thrive at pressures much greater those in our normal environment. The deep sea is the best known high pressure environment, where pressures reach a thousand times greater than those at the surface, yet it is populated by a variety of animals and microorganisms. The earth’s crust supports microorganisms which live in water filled pores at high pressure. In addition, the load bearing joints of animals like ourselves experience pulses of hydrostatic pressure of a magnitude similar to the pressure at mid ocean depths. These pressures affect molecular structures and biochemical reactions. Basic cellular processes are drastically affected – the growth and division of cells, the way nerves conduct impulses and the chemical reactions which provide energy. Adaptation to high pressure also occurs in complex physiological systems such as those which provide buoyancy. Probably the greatest challenge to our understanding of adaptation to high pressure is the stabilisation of the nervous system of deep sea animals to avoid convulsions which pressure causes in shallow water animals. Additionally the book provides insight into the engineering required to study life at high pressure: equipment which can trap small deep sea animals and retrieve them at their high pressure, equivalent equipment for microorganisms, laboratory microscopes which can focus on living cells under high pressure, incubators for bacteria which require high pressure to grow, high pressure aquaria for marine animals and lastly and briefly, manned and unmanned submersible vessels, Landers and deep drill hole sampling. Rather like the organisms studied many laboratory instruments have been adapted to function at high pressure.
Bibliography of Scientific and Technical Bibliographies: Subject index
Author: Bibliography of Scientific and Technical Bibliographies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Bibliographies of Interest to the Atomic Energy Program
Author: Bibliographies of Interest to the Atomic Energy Program
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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