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11mercury-vapor lamp — /merr kyeuh ree vay peuhr/, Elect. a lamp producing a light with a high actinic and ultraviolet content by means of an electric arc in mercury vapor. [1900 05] * * * …
12mercury-vapor lamp — mer′cury va por lamp n. elm a lamp producing a light with a high actinic and ultraviolet content by means of an electric arc in mercury vapor …
13Heat of combustion — The heat of combustion (ΔHc0) is the energy released as heat when a compound undergoes complete combustion with oxygen under standard conditions. The chemical reaction is typically a hydrocarbon reacting with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, water… …
14Climate change feedback — See also: Avoiding dangerous climate change, Runaway climate change, and Abrupt climate change Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each… …
15Biogas — Swamp gas redirects here. For the obsolete theory of emanations from swamps causing disease, see Miasma theory of disease. Pipes carrying biogas (foreground), natural gas and condensate …
16dew point — The temperature to which a given parcel of air must be cooled at constant pressure and constant water vapor content for saturation to occur. It is the temperature at which the saturation vapor pressure of the parcel is equal to the actual vapor… …
17Heat capacity — Thermodynamics …
18Climate of Mars — Mosaic image of Mars as seen by Viking 1, 22 February 1980 The climate of Mars has been an issue of scientific curiosity for centuries, not least because Mars is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from… …
19Moisture advection — is the horizontal transport of water vapor by the wind. Measurement and knowledge of atmospheric water vapor, or moisture , is crucial in the prediction of all weather elements, especially clouds, fog, temperature, humidity thermal comfort… …
20Richard Mollier — Not to be confused with Molière. Richard Mollier Richard Mollier (30 November 1863, Triest – 13 March 1935, Dresden) was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in… …
