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Machon 3 – The facility includes processing of natural uranium for the reactor, and conversion of lithium 6 into a solid for use in thermo-nuclear warheads.
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Joy, if you were able to read The Rainbow and the Worm without recognizing the extraordinary level of thermodynamic woo in passages like those above, then a remedial course in introductory thermo is indicated — post haste.
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Fig. 4 illustrates an apparatus devised by Mr. Munro, and to which the name thermo-microphone might be given, as it is a microphone in which thermo-electric currents are employed in the place of voltaic currents, its special feature of interest lying in the fact that the heated junction of the thermo-electric couple is identical with the microphone contacts of the two electrodes.
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They are hailed as something that actually causes something known as thermo-genesis.
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For them to operate in a purely passive way, all these water and air-loop systems, also called thermo-syphons, require placing the collector at a lower level than the heat outlet, for them to operate in a purely passive way.
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By means of an instrument known as the thermo-electric pile, or thermopile, the various heating power of the whole spectrum, visible and invisible, can be determined.
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On the other hand, electrical currents are produced by heat in what are called thermo-electric elements.
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Electricity generated by heat is called thermo-electricity.
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Helmed by episodic television director Sutton Roley (who could count the superbly creepy telefilms SWEET, SWEET RACHEL and SATAN'S TRIANGLE to his credit), CHOSEN SURVIVORS is the tale of a handful of hand-picked science and artistic types who are thrown down the rabbit hole after the start of thermonuclear war (why does "thermo" make "nuclear war" sound so much worse?)
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No advanced nuclear explosives, such as thermo-nuclear explosives, were manufactured.
qroqqa commented on the word thermo
uncommon variant of thermal used in 'thermo plant'
July 4, 2008