airlock
Sign in to savethumb|right|280 px|An airlock on board Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Operation
- History and research
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Air environments
- Underground
- Underwater
- Saturation diving
- Hyperbaric treatment chambers
- Outer space
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|280 px|An airlock on board Space Shuttle Atlantis
An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “airlock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.