heat of melting
11Melting — Ice melting Molten redirects here. For the Japanese company, see Molten Corporation; or see Molton or Moulton. Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase change of a substance from a solid to a liquid. The internal energy …
12Heat capacity — Thermodynamics …
13Heat sink — A heat sink (or heatsink) is an environment or object that absorbs and dissipates heat from another object using thermal contact (either direct or radiant). Heat sinks are used in a wide range of applications wherever efficient heat dissipation… …
14Heat pipe — A heat pipe is a heat transfer mechanism that can transport large quantities of heat with a very small difference in temperature between the hotter and colder interfaces. Inside a heat pipe, at the hot interface a fluid turns to vapour and the… …
15heat — heatable, adj. heatful, adj. heatless, adj. heatlike, adj. /heet/, n. 1. the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth. 2. the condition or quality of being hot: the heat of an oven. 3. the degree of… …
16Melting pot — For other uses, see Melting pot (disambiguation). The image of the United States as melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot. The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more …
17heat of fusion — noun heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification • Hypernyms: ↑latent heat, ↑heat of transformation * * …
18Heat engine — Thermodynamics …
19Heat-Ray — The Heat Ray is the primary offensive weapon used by the Martians in the H. G. Wells s classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds and its offshoots. In the novel Within the context of the novel, the term Heat Ray is more commonly applied …
20Heat capacity rate — The heat capacity rate is heat transfer terminology used in thermodynamics and different forms of engineering denoting the ability of a fluid to resist change in temperature as heat transfer occurs. It is typically denoted as C, listed from… …
