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- Initialism of pounds per square inch absolute. (an imperial unit of absolute, not relative, pressure; meaning total resultant pressure, including atmospheric or other ambient pressure)
- 1967, Leo Allen Lukenas, The ignition transient in small solid propellant rocket motors, Princeton University:
- Double base propellants often require ignition pressures of as much as 400 psia to avoid the problem of chuffing or hangfires.
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