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  • 21thermal pollution — noun Date: 1966 the discharge of heated liquid (as wastewater from a factory) into natural waters at a temperature harmful to the environment …

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  • 22thermal lance — noun A tool that burns iron in an oxygen rich environment to create very high temperatures for cutting. Syn: burning bar, thermic lance …

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  • 23thermal neutron — noun A relatively slow moving neutron whose energy is governed by the temperature of its environment …

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  • 24thermal sweating — thermoregulatory sweating the normal mechanism by which a warm external environment causes sweating, as opposed to conditions such as emotional hyperhidrosis and gustatory hyperhidrosis …

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  • 25Raichur Thermal Power Station — (RTPS) is a coal fired electric power station located at coord|16|21|18|N|77|20|31|E|display=inline,title in the Raichur district of the state of Karnataka, India. It is operated by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) and was the first …

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  • 26Human Thermal Environments — is a branch of the discipline Ergonomics, concerned with the thermal comfort (i.e. whether a person feels too cold, hot, sticky etc.) of human beings in any, but especially in their working environment.Convective, conductive, radiative and… …

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  • 27Solar thermal energy — Solar thermal system for water heating in Santorini, Greece …

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  • 28Platform Environment Control Interface — For Portland Energy Conservation, Inc., see Portland Energy Conservation. Platform Environment Control Interface, abbreviated as PECI, is a recent (introduced in 2006) standard used for thermal management in the Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessors.… …

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  • 29Nuclear thermal rocket — Sketch of nuclear thermal rocket …

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  • 30Ocean 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,… …

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