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11steam hole — An opening from a cavity through which a current of air charged with vapor blows upwards and condenses at the orifice to appear as steam. Such openings are an occasional feature in karst terranes [20]. Synonyms: (French.) puits à vapeur,… …
12steam point — noun : the normal boiling point of pure water that is used as one of the fixed points of the international temperature scale * * * the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F. Cf …
13steam point — the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F. Cf. ice point. [1900 05] * * * …
14Timeline of steam power — See Steam engine, Steam power during the Industrial Revolution. Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 1600s, to useful pumps for mining in 1700,… …
15Thermal power station — Republika Power Plant, a thermal power station in Pernik, Bulgaria …
16Solar thermal energy — Solar thermal system for water heating in Santorini, Greece …
17Fossil fuel power plant — A fossil fuel power plant burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum (oil) to produce electricity.Fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation. In many countries, such plants provide most of the… …
18Ocean thermal energy conversion — Temperature differences between the surface and 1000m depth in the oceans Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow or surface ocean waters to run a heat engine and produce useful work,… …
19Underground nuclear testing — Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1990s. Nuclear weapons …
20Thermodynamic temperature — is the absolute measure of temperature and is one of the principal parameters of thermodynamics. Thermodynamic temperature is an “absolute” scale because it is the measure of the fundamental property underlying temperature: its null or zero point …
