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the invisible squeeze that turns coal into diamonds and bottled feelings into explosions
means The force pressing down or in on something — whether physical weight, atmospheric push, or the mental strain of demands and expectations.
from From Latin 'pressura,' the act of pressing, from 'premere,' to press — the same root that gives us 'press,' 'compress,' and 'express' (to squeeze out). Latin 'premere' has been crushing things since antiquity; English borrowed 'pressure' through Old French in the late Middle Ages, first for the literal squeeze and later for the metaphorical weight we feel when life leans on us.
- diamond maker
- Carbon becomes diamond under crushing underground pressure
- deep crush
- Mariana Trench pressure exceeds 1,000 atmospheres
- boiling trick
- Lower pressure lets water boil at cooler temperatures
- body force
- Air pushes 14.7 pounds on every square inch of you
- sound itself
- Hearing is just your ears reading pressure waves
mariana trench — deepest ocean point at 11,000 meters depth, creates crushing pressure of 1,100 atmospheres
challenger deep dive 2019 — victor vescovo descended to mariana trench's deepest point, withstanding 16,000 psi of pressure