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  2. Pressure-balanced valve - Wikipedia

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    The pressure-balanced shower valve compensates for changes in water pressure. It has a diaphragm or piston inside that reacts to relative changes in either hot or cold water pressure to maintain balanced pressure. As water pressure drops on one supply line, the valve reduces the pressure in the other supply line to match.

  3. Surface tension - Wikipedia

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    If no force acts normal to a tensioned surface, the surface must remain flat. But if the pressure on one side of the surface differs from pressure on the other side, the pressure difference times surface area results in a normal force. In order for the surface tension forces to cancel the force due to pressure, the surface must be curved.

  4. It Can Be Dangerous to Clean the Shower While Using It - AOL

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    $8.84 at amazon.com. 4. Cleaner will rinse away. If you leave the shower running while you clean it, the cleaning solution is going to rinse away before it has a chance to work.

  5. Shower-curtain effect - Wikipedia

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    Also called chimney effect or stack effect, observes that warm air (from the hot shower) rises out over the shower curtain as cooler air (near the floor) pushes in under the curtain to replace the rising air. By pushing the curtain in towards the shower, the (short range) vortex and Coandă effects become more significant. However, the shower ...

  6. Plumbing fixture - Wikipedia

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    The visible water surface in a toilet is the top of the trap's water seal. Each fixture drain, with exceptions, must be vented so that negative air pressure in the drain cannot siphon the trap dry, to prevent positive air pressure in the sewer from forcing gases past the water seal, and to prevent explosive sewer gas buildup.

  7. How to Clean a Shower Head (And Why You Really Need To) - AOL

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    Before you do, “wrap plumber’s tape around the shower arm entrance to create a tight seal and use a wrench to reattach the shower head to the shower arm,” says Peterson. “Use a rag to ...

  8. Shower - Wikipedia

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    A typical stall shower with height-adjustable nozzle and folding doors A combination shower and bathtub, with movable screen. A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers are set up to have adjustable temperature, spray pressure and showerhead ...

  9. Why You Get Your Best Ideas in the Shower - AOL

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    The temperature of the water, Kounios points out, is more or less the same as the temperature of the body, so there is nothing too cold or too hot to draw you out of the literal immersion of the ...