What is the difference between nominal size and outside diameter?

What will be an ideal response?


Nominal size is the name size. It is the approximate inside diameter. For iron pipe the outside diameter is ¼ inch larger than the nominal size. For copper tubing, the outside diameter is 1/8" larger than the nominal size.

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Chlorofluorocarbons are used as:

a. heating elements c. aerosol propellants b. automobile fuel d. air humidifiers

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Wagon tracks are ____.

A. discontinuities resulting from failure to clean the convex root weld B. the weave pattern of a hot pass C. the small amount of metal deposited during the hot pass D. pinholes left in the root pass

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A voltaic cell is constructed of two unlike metals and a(n) _____, alkaline, or salt solution.

A. ion B. saline C. salty D. acid

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