"valve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A valve malfunctioned in the liquid-oxygen tank on the Atlas booster.
- About 75 gallons of fuel were dumped on the runway when a valve in the wing tank malfunctioned, a Northwest spokesman said.
- He was having lunch at a school cafeteria, and a valve malfunctioned and caused a water heater to explode.
- On Sept. 1, a different valve connected to the steam generator malfunctioned, and the plant was taken off line for two days.
- "I've been studying the maintenance reports of deck 31," he muttered, pointing to the screen, "and I can't understand how a seal or a valve could have malfunctioned so badly."
- Officials said that a valve malfunctioned during the loading, causing the spill.
- The mitral valve was malfunctioning.
- Neither Mr. Mako nor officials in the Environmental Protection Department said why the valve had malfunctioned.
- There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron.
- The regulators believe operators may have waited too long to shut down the reactor after discovering that a valve had malfunctioned.
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