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  • noun Plural form of kelvin.

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  • Other similar claims: 25,000-hour life, or about 17 years if used for four hours a day, and 2700 kelvins, meaning these LEDs are comparable in color to soft white incandescents.

    60-watt equivalent LEDs may last until Christmas 2027 2010

  • The heat from the fuel rises to a temperature of 3,000 kelvins, and can speed along the tube 10,000 times faster than the normal spread of this chemical reaction.

    MIT Scientists Discover Thermopower Waves Using Carbon Nanotubes | Inhabitat 2010

  • As for kelvins, a measure of the color temperature, this LED has 2700 and that makes it comparable to a soft white incandescent.

    LED alternative to 60-watt lightbulb coming to Home Depot 2010

  • As for kelvins, a measure of the color temperature, this LED has 2700 and that makes it comparable to a soft white incandescent.

    LED alternative to 60-watt lightbulb coming to Home Depot 2010

  • The bottom row shows what happens when you put a penny in the focal point of the lens: the inside melts away and the coating stays intact zinc melts at 693 kelvins, copper melts at 1,356 K.

    What's a rich media ad, anyway? 2009

  • The bottom row shows what happens when you put a penny in the focal point of the lens: the inside melts away and the coating stays intact zinc melts at 693 kelvins, copper melts at 1,356 K.

    Will it lens? 2009

  • The bottom row shows what happens when you put a penny in the focal point of the lens: the inside melts away and the coating stays intact zinc melts at 693 kelvins, copper melts at 1,356 K.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • A difference or interval of temperature may be expressed in kelvins or in degrees Celsius.

    Kelvin 2007

  • The temperature at the upper boundary of the lens, where the phase transition from perovskite to postperovskite occurs, is around 2,500 kelvins 4,000° F.

    The Temperature At The Earth's Core Staq Mavlen 2006

  • At the lower boundary, where the reverse transition occurs, the temperature is around 3,500 kelvins 5,800° F.

    The Temperature At The Earth's Core Staq Mavlen 2006

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