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Example sentences for: piston

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Think about the cylinder and piston in the idealized Carnot cycle, with the hot, compressed working gas in the chamber.
Of the six, only the basketball star in the bunch, Detroit Piston Grant Hill, appears to have been seriously reading anything other than his own prose.
And now,” concludes Maxwell with a broad smile, “we can use the macroscopic temperature dierence between the left and right boxes to extract mechanical work, say, by driving a piston.”
There is plenty of energy in the random motions of the gas particles, but there is no means to extract mechanical work from it, say, to drive a piston.
The cylinder and the piston, the position of the piston in the cylinder, the grease between the piston and cylinder are constraints.