One of the most ubiquitous accessories in modern China, after a wallet or purse and an umbrella, is a double-walled insulated glass thermos with tea leaves in the top behind a strainer.

A thermos full of green tea is also a staple on family or school outings as an accompaniment to bento ( box lunches ).

The month was named after the French word thermal which comes from the Greek word " thermos " which means heat.

Max Perutz gives an account of a similar incident in his book, I Wish I Made You Angry Earlier: a demonstration of Pykrete was given at Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by a naval officer, Lieutenant Commander Douglas Grant, who was provided by Perutz with rods of ice and Pykrete packed with dry ice in thermos flasks and large blocks of ice and Pykrete.

An official briefing to debunk UFO conspiracies was overshadowed by an auto mechanic's claim to have seen yet another weird cylindrical aircraft, a cosmic encounter he re-enacted with the aid of an aluminum coffee thermos ... Stanton Friedman, a Canada-based UFO expert, says Varginha has the makings of a ' cosmic Watergate.

Jacek Kuroń was a proud owner of a yellow thermos bottle.

The riddle of the yellow thermos was uncovered in the book “ Urban Legends ” by Mark Barber and Wojciech Orliński.

Molten aluminum was transported from Reynolds and Alcoa reduction plants to the foundry, inside thermos tank trucks.

Bovril is served at the Groucho Club and is associated with football culture, being commonly drunk on the terraces from thermos flasks in winter.

The term thermobaric is derived from the Greek words for " heat " and " pressure ": thermobarikos ( θερμοβαρικός ), from thermos ( θερμός ), hot + baros ( βάρος ), weight, pressure + suffix-ikos (- ικός ), suffix-ic.

For instance, when Washoe's mate Moja didn't know the word for " thermos ", Moja referred to it as a " METAL CUP DRINK ".

In ancient Rome, thermae ( from Greek thermos, " hot ") and balnea ( Greek βαλανείον, balaneion ) were facilities for bathing.

Thermae ( which comes from the Greek adjective thermos, hot ) meant properly warm springs, or baths of warm water ; but came to be applied to those magnificent edifices which grew up under the empire, in place of the simple balneae of the republic, and which comprised within their range of buildings all the appurtenances belonging to the Greek gymnasia, as well as a regular establishment appropriated for bathing.

It is common to see students going to school with a guampa and their thermos underneath their arms filled with plenty of ice and water, for summer temperatures can reach 40 ° to 45 ° C ( 104 ° to 113 ° F ).

The karanda ' y is the material used for the manufacture of handbags, wallets, vases, porta tereré ( bags to hold thermos flasks for tereré, the typical summer drink ) carrying baskets and mats.

In 1892 Sir James Dewar invented a container that could keep liquids hot or cold ( the thermos ) which led three men – Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth – to construct a large thermal flask for either liquid hydrogen and oxygen or for solid fuel combustion for use in rocket propulsion, applying the thermal flask principle to keep rocket fuel cold and successfully using it for the V-2 rocket and the Saturn V rocket that put man on the moon.

At Scottish football stadiums, containers such as thermos flasks are banned by law, so Bovril is purchased inside the grounds where it is served in polystyrene or plastic cups.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water ; ' hydros ' in the Greek meaning water and ' thermos ' meaning heat.

A thermometer ( from the Greek θερμός, thermos, meaning " hot " and μἐτρον, metron, " measure ") is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient using a variety of different principles.

The adjective geothermal originates from the Greek roots γη ( ge ), meaning earth, and θερμος ( thermos ), meaning hot.

The name is derived from the Greek words thermos " hot " and statos " a standing ".

Other versions include stainless steel, insulated presses designed to keep the coffee hot, similar in design to thermos flasks.

Some link the name of the city to Greek thermos " hot ", tracing its name back to Alexander the Great.

A clerihew much appreciated by chemists is cited in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes regarding the inventor of the thermos bottle ( or Dewar flask ):

Its name is from the Greek θερμός, " thermos ", heat, plus natron, because it may be a dehydration product of natron.

The tower is nicknamed because of its cylindrical form " thermos flask ".

The key to a reusable shield against this type of heating is very low-density material, similar to how a thermos bottle inhibits convective heat transfer.

Spring and summer may be here officially, but those thermos stay in.

Some systems are vacuum-insulated, acting something like large thermos bottles.

Some other objects that may induce sparks are plastic / holographic print thermos ( such as Starbuck's novelty cups ) or cups with metal lining.

When Kovacs poured milk from a thermos bottle, the stream flowed in a seemingly unusual direction.

A simple variometer can be constructed by adding a large reservoir ( a thermos bottle ) to augment the storage capacity of a common aircraft rate-of-climb instrument.

Once collected as heat, thermos containment efficiency improves significantly with increased size.

( Historically, many other trademarks owned by other corporations had been allowed to become generic words, such as " shredded wheat " and " thermos " -- a disappointment and loss to their originators.

This included trading cards by Dart, a sticker album and sticker / activity book by Panini, a jigsaw puzzle by Golden, a coloring book, a lunchbox and thermos set, Valentine's, a party centerpiece by Party Creations, a PC game by Hi-Tech Expressions, and six PVC figures available with Burger King Kids ' Meals.

The invigorating yerba mate in its gourd with thermos.

Bovril beef tea was the main warm drink that Ernest Shackleton's team had to drink when they were marooned on Elephant Island during the Endurance Expedition.

Nicknamed Chevril ( by replacing the Bov ( ox ) with Chev ( horse ) in the Bovril name ) it was produced by boiling down horse meat or mules to a jelly paste and serving it as a beef tea.

Their food consisted of " rice, biscuits, yams, tinned beef, and tea, with a few cocoanuts for those who may fall sick ".

Other agricultural products in general are rice, corn, tea, pork, poultry, beef, fish, and other fruits and vegetables.

cotton, cashew nuts, sugar cane, tea, cassava ( tapioca ), coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits ; potatoes, sunflowers, beef, poultry

Patients in the prison hospital were given a daily ration of 1 pint of tea morning and evening, 16oz of bread, 16oz of beef, mutton or fish, 1 pint of broth, 16oz of green vegetables or potato, and 2 pints of beer.

Captain Cook arrived first offering a pipe and tobacco to smoke ( which was dismissed as a ' burning thing .. stuck in his mouth '), then boiling a billy of tea ( which was dismissed as scalding ' dirty water '), next baking flour on the coals ( which was rejected as smelling ' stale ' and thrown away untasted ), finally boiling beef ( which smelled well, and tasted okay, once the salty skin was wiped off ).

Arrowroot is used as an article of diet in the form of biscuits, puddings, jellies, cakes, hot sauces, etc., and also with beef tea, milk or veal broth, and noodles in Korean and Vietnamese cuisine.

They were internationally notable centres of production of oil, coffee, cotton, cashew, coconut, timber, minerals ( like diamonds ), metals ( like iron and aluminium ), banana, citrus, tea, sisal, beer ( Cuca and Laurentina were successful beer brands produced locally ), cement, fish and other sea products, beef and textiles.

Famous products of Murakami are tea ( Murakami is the northernmost tea-growing spot in Japan ), salmon, and Murakami beef.

His increased isolation bred rumours, including one that he was a cannibal or ate only raw meat-when he ate mainly beef tea and nibbled at venison.

The gaucho diet was composed almost entirely of beef while on the range, supplemented by yerba mate, a tea made from the leaves of the yerba tree, a type of holly rich in caffeine and nutrients.

In addition to the usual spoonful of bully beef, we used up some of the remaining water in making some hot porridge and brewed up some tea.

The mock turtle soup has an Alice in Wonderland theme, where a fob watch formed of freeze-dried beef stock covered with gold leaf is dropped into a tea cup and has a beef stock " tea " poured over it that dissolves the gold and the watch.

Queen Victoria even sent shipments of Fortnum and Mason's concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale's hospitals during the Crimean War.