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Temperature meaning
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer. | An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever. | A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
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Although the high-temperature superconductor ( HTSC ) has higher critical temperature, flux lattice melting takes place in moderate magnetic fields around a temperature lower than this critical temperature.
Ozone and temperature Within this layer, temperature increases with altitude (see temperature inversion ); the top of the stratosphere has a temperature of about 270 (− 3°C or 26. 6°F ).
The melting temperature is different from the gelling temperature, depending on the sources, agarose gel has a gelling temperature of 35-42 °C and a melting temperature of 85-95 °C.
A heat index is not the actual temperature of our surroundings but it is the “apparent temperature or what humans perceive or feel as the temperature affecting their body,” according to PAGASA.
The first subzero temperature in Fargo-Moorhead this winter was back on Nov. 11, when the temperature reached a low of -3 degrees on a day with a maximum temperature of 13 degrees.
Accordingly, as energy is removed from molecules, both their kinetic temperature (the temperature derived from the kinetic energy of translational motion) and their internal temperature simultaneously diminish in equal proportions.
Because the temperature sensor was not designed to read higher than the convert thermostat opening temperature, the monitoring equipment did not register the true temperature inside the tank. citation citation The gas evaporated in hours rather than days.
For example, a temperature-sensitive mutation can cause cell death at high temperature (restrictive condition), but might have no deleterious consequences at a lower temperature (permissive condition).
If the non-registering thermometer was removed from the hot liquid, then the temperature indicated on the thermometer would immediately begin changing to reflect the temperature of its new conditions (in this case, the air temperature).
In principle, if no outside temperature change affects this area (e.g. a warm air mass ), the raised albedo and lower temperature would maintain the current snow and invite further snowfall, deepening the snow–temperature feedback.
Its main disadvantage was that when the temperature changed, the rod would come to the new temperature quickly but the mass of mercury might take a day or two to reach the new temperature, causing the rate to deviate during that time.
More advanced irons for use in electronics have a mechanism with a temperature sensor and method of temperature control to keep the tip temperature steady; more power is available if a connection is large.
Most commercial viscometers citation make measurements at a constant temperature (that can be selected by the user) to avoid viscosity variations due to temperature and feature an heating system to control the sample fluid temperature to the target value.
Temperature-pressure dependence For both the top and bottom traces, the temperature point of the azeotrope is the constant temperature chosen for the graph.
The maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine (which no engine ever attains) is equal to the temperature difference between the hot and cold ends divided by the temperature at the hot end, all expressed in absolute temperature or kelvins.
The Sieder-Tate result can be more accurate as it takes into account the change in viscosity ( and ) due to temperature change between the bulk fluid average temperature and the heat transfer surface temperature, respectively.
The temperature at which this happens is known as the closure temperature or blocking temperature and is specific to a particular material and isotopic system.
The temperature derived from this translational kinetic energy is sometimes referred to as kinetic temperature and is equal to the thermodynamic temperature over a very wide range of temperatures.
The temperature response is also different; RTDs are useful over larger temperature ranges, while thermistors typically achieve a greater precision within a limited temperature range, typically −90°C to 130°C.
The world's highest unconfirmed temperature was a temperature flare up during a heat burst in June 1967, with a temperature of convert.