Laws
Types of Piping Material
Definitions
Testing
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200

This law describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a confined gas.

What is Boyle's Law?

200

This piping material is the most used material for drainage and is commonly used to make potato guns.

What is PVC?

200

The flashing of pumped liquid into vapor bubbles and the subsequent violent collapse of those bubbles as the liquid moves from suction to discharge through a pump. 

What is cavitation?

200

A test to evaluate the ductility of the pipe or tube.

What is a Flattening Test?

200

The more you have of it the less you see.

What is Darkness?

400

This law describes how gases tend to expand when heated.

What is Charles's Law?

400

A form of cast iron pipe that has a different manufacturing process that makes it twice as strong.  Coincidently, this pipe has nothing to do with the winged mallard that it's name might infer.

What is ductile iron pipe?

400

This fitting contains material that insulate between dissimilar metals to help prevent an electrical circuit from forming.

What is a Dielectric Union?

400

This test sees how much a material can be stretched or pulled apart.

What is a Tensile Strength Test?

400

A popular children's cookie introduced as a Christmas ornament in 1902.

What are Animal Crackers?

600

There are no law while drinking this carbonated alcoholic beverage.

What are White Claws?

600

This colorful plastic tubing is commonly used in the color blue and red.

What is PEX?

600

A symbol used universally to express the intensity of the acid or alkaline condition in water.

What is PH?

600

This test checks to see how much squishing a material can take.

What is a Compression Test.

600

This reindeers has the same name as another another holiday mascot. 

Who is Cupid?

800

This law comes from combining three different laws about pressure, volume, and temperature.

What is the Combined Gas Law?

800

This piping material is a cousin to another plastic piping material.  The difference is, this one is chlorinated.

What is CPVC?

800

The head value at the suction side (e.g. the inlet of a pump) required to keep the fluid away from cavitating.

What is NPSH or Net Positive Suction Head?

800

This test checks to how resilient a material is to pressure or dents. 

What is a Hardness Test?

800

This horned anthropomorphic figure of European Apline folklore that assists Santa Claus, visits houses and either leaves a bundle of sticks for bad children or hit the bad children with the bundle of sticks. 

Who is Krampus?

1000

This law states that the pressure of a gas is directly proportional to temperature if the volume of the gas remains constant. 

What is Gay-Lussac's Law?

1000

You will most likely see crackheads stealing this shiny piping material to sell for scrap

What is Copper?

1000

The ability to be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking. 

What is Malleable?

1000

This test checks to see how resistant a material is to being cut or torn apart by forces not acting in a straight line.

What is a Shear Test?

1000

In 1888 this Russian inventor introduced arc welding with consumable metal electrodes.

Who is Nikolay Gavrilovich Slavyanov?

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