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• To bring the pressure down to this value, one must ...
• This will heat the thermistor enough to lower (or decrease, or reduce, or diminish, or cut) the resistance to 200 ohms.
• The transformer is suitable for stepping down (or reducing, or decreasing) the supply voltage to 85 volts on open circuit.
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