ohmic

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They're turning high quality electrical energy into low grade heat whilst creating a dangerously explosive stochiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen - ohmic heating is way better at for this.

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  1. Of or pertaining to an ohm or ohms; measuring or measured by the electric unit called an ohm. At present Dr. Fleming and a few others talk of ohmic resistance, to distinguish resistance from the relation between the back electromotive force and the current. Elect. Rev. (Eng.), XXV. 411.

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  • The ohmic and per-unit methods, covered in previous articles, are the most accurate and flexible means of fault calculation. —  CSE - Top Articles
  • As a result, the contacts offer an extensive cross-section for low ohmic resistance, while at the same time providing a large radiating surface that yields higher power carrying capabilities than similar competitors 'products. —  EE Times-Asia
  • One way around that is the unintentional detection sometimes provided by a poor ohmic connection acting like a semiconductor.
  • ©2001 American Institute of Physics. cnt contact dot fet interference metal ohmic polarization pseudospin quantum schottky CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Then the ohmic contact layer (n+a-Si) at the channel region is etched by dry etching using the source and drain electrodes as an etch-protect mask. —  Esato discussion forum
 

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