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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
depressurize .
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Examples
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Air tightness is determined with a blower door test which pressurizes (and depressurizes) the house to 50 Pascals.
Passive Aggressive: “Passive” Home Construction Comes to Seattle « PubliCola 2010
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In an explosive volcanic eruption, gas-charged magma abruptly depressurizes as it nears the Earth's surface, violently exploding out of a constrained vent.
Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash 2009
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At best, an infidel or two might be killed by the blast, and one or two others by flying debris as the cabin suddenly depressurizes, but that's about all you're likely to manage under the most favorable conditions possible.
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A full TerraLogos audit takes three hours and includes a blower door test, which depressurizes the house so the auditor can scan for leaks in each room, and an infrared scan, which can find missing insulation and hidden air pathways.
House Calls 2007
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Priester Aviation in Wheeling, Ill. Oxygen masks also automatically pop out in the passenger compartment of a Learjet after a cabin depressurizes.
Final flight 1999
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Felix will depend on a sealed capsule to provide a pressurized environment; but once he depressurizes the vessel and opens the door to step off, his full-pressure suit and helmet - what engineers call a "Pilot Protective Assembly," or PPA - will be his only life-support system until he reaches the safety of the lower atmosphere.
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Felix will depend on a sealed capsule to provide a pressurized environment; but once he depressurizes the vessel and opens the door to step off, his full-pressure suit and helmet - what engineers call a "Pilot Protective Assembly," or PPA - will be his only life-support system until he reaches the safety of the lower atmosphere.
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Felix will depend on a sealed capsule to provide a pressurized environment; but once he depressurizes the vessel and opens the door to step off, his full-pressure suit and helmet - what engineers call a "Pilot Protective Assembly," or PPA - will be his only life-support system until he reaches the safety of the lower atmosphere.
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During his ascent beneath a 30-million-cubic-foot polyethylene balloon filled with helium, Felix will depend on a sealed capsule to provide a pressurized environment; but once he depressurizes the vessel and opens the door to step off, his full-pressure suit and helmet -- what engineers call a "Pilot Protective Assembly," or PPA -- will be his only life-support system until he reaches the safety of the lower atmosphere.
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Felix will depend on a sealed capsule to provide a pressurized environment; but once he depressurizes the vessel and opens the door to step off, his full-pressure suit and helmet -- what engineers call a "Pilot Protective Assembly," or PPA -- will be his only life-support system until he reaches the safety of the lower atmosphere.
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