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Thermal

adjective

Relating to or associated with heat. Synonyms: caloric, thermic. "Thermal capacity" , "Thermic energy" , "The caloric effect of sunlight"

Of or relating to a hot spring.

Caused by or designed to retain heat. "Thermal underwear"

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... suggest; and it is evident that, besdies the heat produced according to Joule's law, there are other actions which warm the cell during charge and cool it during discharge. Duncan and Wiegand loc. cit.), who first observed the thermal changes, ascribe the chief influence to the electrochemical addition of H2SO4 to the liquid during charge and its removal during discharge. Fig. 18 gives some results obtained by Ayrton, Lamb, &c. This elevation ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... men as Professor Loeb, the appearance of life on the globe was a purely accidental circumstance. The proper elements just happened to come together at the right time in the right proportions and under the right conditions, and life was the result. It was an accident in the thermal history of the globe. Professor Loeb has lately published a volume of essays and addresses called "The Mechanistic Conception of Life," enforcing and illustrating this view. He makes war on what he terms the metaphysical conception ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Thermal" : hot spring, air current, hot, thermal emission, current of air, wind, heat, nonthermal