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  • adjective That changes color on exposure to heat.

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Examples

  • The URI researchers began studying thermochromic pigments – those that change color at certain temperatures -- a decade ago when a cookware company sought a polymer that could be added to its products to make them change color when they were too hot to touch.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • They don't own the patent for thermochromic barcode.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • According to Lucht, other thermochromic indicators are commercially available, but they are expensive and they lack the archival feature required by regulatory agencies to track and trace products on a global scale.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • The URI researchers began studying thermochromic pigments – those that change color at certain temperatures -- a decade ago when a cookware company sought a polymer that could be added to its products to make them change color when they were too hot to touch.

    5 posts from March 2009 2009

  • According to Lucht, other thermochromic indicators are commercially available, but they are expensive and they lack the archival feature required by regulatory agencies to track and trace products on a global scale.

    5 posts from March 2009 2009

  • After cooking begins, an invisible, temperature-sensitive thermochromic print appears in black to indicate when an egg is soft, medium or hard-boiled.

    Going for the Perfect Hard Boiled Egg | Impact Lab 2006

  • She recently produced a decorative fabric woven with heating electrodes and thermochromic ink, which changes from black to pink and back to black again according to the room's temperature.

    Wearing Wires 2007

  • Pleotint's patented technology is a lightly tinted thermochromic interlayer that warms up and darkens in direct sunlight, but clears in indirect sunlight to allow light to pass into a building.

    unknown title 2011

  • Pleotint produces the thermochromic self-tinting interlayer by extrusion in its Jenison, Mich., facility.

    unknown title 2011

  • Since 2006 Solartwin have been working on small prototype "thermal step change" thermochromic solar heater collectors which cannot boil.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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