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Why Entire Machines Depend on Something You Can Hold Between Two Fingers
Industrial equipment can weigh thousands of pounds, generate enormous force, and perform work no person could accomplish alone. Yet some of those machines depend on components small enough to disappear inside a pocket and inexpensive enough to seem almost insignificant. Seals have the difficult job of keeping fluids, gases, pressure, and contaminants where they belong. […]
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