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Keeping the water below boiling stops your meat from cooking, and acts as a heat-sink for the areas that get hottest most quickly.
From The Tips Box: Defrosting Meat, Packing Materials | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Keeping the water below boiling stops your meat from cooking, and acts as a heat-sink for the areas that get hottest most quickly.
From The Tips Box: Defrosting Meat, Packing Materials | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Use a tiny paint brush (avoid tooth brush unless it has very soft brushes) to brush off the heavy dust on the heat-sink.
Tip to overcome Computer hang, self-rebooting and shutdown 2008
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You may also choose to install an extra tiny fan inside the computer case or change to a larger and better heat-sink to cool the CPU.
Tip to overcome Computer hang, self-rebooting and shutdown 2008
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For numero tambieno, its non-existent liquid heat-sink is not in phase-change equilibrium with massive polar ice caps that sequester vast amounts of the heat-storage substance.
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For yet another, it is not 3/4 covered by a massive liquid heat-sink that convectively carries heat across its surface.
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It's amazingly detailed -- separate gingerbread RAM, heat-sink, etc, all lovingly assembled on a gingerbreadboard.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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The Chillow is a non-electric heat-sink you put under your pillow to keep it cool at night.
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When activated, the all natural desiccant contained within a vacuum draws the heat from the beverage through the evaporator into an insulated heat-sink container.
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Instead of a heat-sink of a sky, clear blue and white clouds.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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