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unusual facts about compressed air



Dust-Off

Dust-Off is a brand of dust cleaner (refrigerant-based propellant cleaner, which is not compressed air and incorrectly called "canned air") containing difluoroethane; it is used to remove particulates and dust from computers and electronic equipment.

Entec Engine Corporation

This concept covered by U.S. Patent # 6,279,550 and many others, include the concept of admitting cold, or chilled, compressed air into the cylinder and combustion chamber of a compression or spark ignited engine during its compression stroke.

Manipulator

Where there are special requirements to protect against fire and explosion, they may be driven by compressed air.


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Accurizing

The precharged pneumatic uses an external source of compressed air, either an external pump or a high pressure reservoir such as a SCUBA tank, to fill a reservoir.

Air brake

Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars

Air cannon

Air gun, a rifle, pistol, or shotgun which fires projectiles by means of compressed air or other gas

Air blaster, a compressed air device to unblock large storage containers for powdery material

Air Car

Compressed air car, a car that uses a motor powered by compressed air

Air knife

In order to achieve the highest efficiency using compressed air, many manufacturers of compressed air knives utilize the Coandă effect to improve compressed air knife design over other types of knives and nozzles.

Air line

Air line is most commonly used for supplying compressed air to air tools in workshops and in road vehicle air brake or railway air brake systems on larger vehicles or rail cars.

Boulton Paul Aircraft

The subsequent Overstrand bomber featured the world's first enclosed, power-operated turret, mounting a single Lewis gun and propelled by compressed air.

Brutus de Villeroi

The French Navy was also already working on another design, Plongeur, with a compressed air engine, which was launched in 1863.

Chicken gun

In the 1970s, Goodyear Aerospace in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, used a gun with a ceramic diaphragm to seal the compressed air in the tank from the gun's barrel.

Green Grotto Caves

It is most memorable for being the location where Bond (played for the first time by Roger Moore) kills Kananga (played by Yaphet Kotto) by forcing him to swallow a bullet of compressed air, causing him to float up to the ceiling like a balloon and explode.

Human cannonball

In the 1920s, Ildebrando Zacchini invented a cannon that used compressed air to launch a human cannonball.

LSWR suburban lines

Using compressed air and the Greathead tunnelling shield, the line was constructed in twin tubes, passing under the River Thames and terminating at the Mansion House, in a common station provided by the Central London Railway.

Pneumatic motor

Air Hogs, a toy brand, also uses compressed air to power piston engines in toy airplanes (and some other toy vehicles).