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by arbitrandomuser 1195 days ago
You don't need to know the typical pressure , but you definitely get the idea the pressure built inside a steam engine is much higher than atm.

The steam pressure is not about the numbers so much but a kind of hyperbole , "you know that thing which hauls tonnes of steel purely on pressure made in a steam boiler , yeah the pressure on Venus is 4 times that pressure "

I found it an interesting fact.

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> a kind of hyperbole

I didn’t think of it that way initially, but this makes sense, thanks.