lubrication
Sign in to savethumb|Lubrication of a ship's steam engine [[crankshaft. The two bottles of lubricant are attached to the piston and move while the engine is operating.]] thumb|right|Bicycle chain laying in melted pure [[paraffin wax without additives, which has gained popularity as a bicycle chain lubrication since around 2020]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, lubrication is referenced by 301 other articles, and connects out to International Standard Book Number, steam engine and digital object identifier.
Vinony files it under Lubricants, Lubrication and Tribology.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- process
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- Steam engine lubrication-DASA.JPG
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- Commons category
- Lubrication
- topic's main category
- Category:Lubrication
- uses
- lubricant
- studied by
- tribology
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Lubrication mechanisms
- Fluid-lubricated systems
- See also
- References
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thumb|Lubrication of a ship's steam engine [[crankshaft. The two bottles of lubricant are attached to the piston and move while the engine is operating.]] thumb|right|Bicycle chain laying in melted pure [[paraffin wax without additives, which has gained popularity as a bicycle chain lubrication since around 2020]]
Lubrication is the process or technique of using a lubricant to reduce friction and wear and tear in a contact between two surfaces. The study of lubrication is a discipline in the field of tribology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lubrication” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.