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Our initial conditions are 100, 000 pa of pressure, 1000 cc volume, and 300 K of temperature, so our experimental constant is:
* The incoming radiation from the Sun is mostly in the form of visible light and nearby wavelengths, largely in the range 0. 2 – 4 μm, corresponding to the Sun's radiative temperature of 6, 000 K. Almost half the radiation is in the form of " visible " light, which our eyes are adapted to use.
If this increased rate of injection ... should raise the present background opacity by a factor of 4, our calculations suggest a decrease in global temperature by as much as 3. 5 ° C.
An inertial confinement fusion implosion in Nova, creating " microsun " conditions of tremendously high density and temperature rivaling even those found at the core of our Sun.
Hertzsprung – Russell diagram identifying stellar luminosity as a function of temperature for many stars in our solar neighborhood. In astronomy, luminosity is the amount of electromagnetic energy a body radiates per unit of time.
Soil is not only a support for vegetation, but it is also the zone beneath our feet ( the pedosphere ) of numerous interactions between climate ( water, air, temperature ), soil life ( micro-organisms, plants, animals ) and its residues, the mineral material of the original and added rock, and its position in the landscape.
In other words, there are no possible enzymes operating at normal core body temperature that are as efficient as the ones evolved, at least none appearing in our evolution so far.
The insula and cingulate cortex are areas of the brain that represent our perception of touch / position and pain / temperature in the context of other simultaneous perceptions ( sight, smell, taste, hearing and balance ), and in the context of our memories and present emotional state.
According to Max Planck, who wrote an influential textbook on thermodynamics, and many other authors, this empirical principle shows that we can define the " temperature function " central to our everyday conception of heat.
Going back to our example, the diffusion of heat will lead our glass of water toward global thermodynamic equilibrium, a state in which the temperature of the glass is completely homogeneous.
Their surface temperature is high enough ( 20, 000 K or more ) that a sizable fraction of their energy output is in the ultraviolet range, thus invisible to our eyes.
But if our hot plate is finite in size, and has no boundary where heat can be carried off, we can expect to homogenize the temperature, but clearly we cannot expect to reduce it to zero.
His tract entitled A Briefe Discourse of the New-Found-Land with the situation, temperature, and commodities thereof, inciting our nation to go forward in the hopefull plantation begunne, was published in 1620 by Mason while in England.
The day having been cloudy with occasional showers, these islands at all times dreary enough, looked particularly so on our first view of them, the shores of sound, steep, with bare hills intersected with ravines rising from them, these hills without a tree and the clouds hanging low, gave them exactly the appearance of the Cheviots or a Scotch moor on a winter's day and considering we were in the May of these latitudes, the first impression of the climate was not favourable, the weather however, was not called, the thermometer was 63 degrees which is Howick mid-summer temperature.
Sensual play can include feathers, tickling, temperature play including wax play and ice play, food play, light caresses, very light flogging or spanking, sensual massage, drumming fingers, sensory deprivation, soft music, candlelight, and a variety of other things which stimulate our tactile, heat, cold, auditory, olfactory, and visual neuroreceptors.
In human terms, our comfort is in large part a consequence of not just the temperature of the surrounding air, but ( because we cool ourselves via perspiration ) the extent to which that air is saturated with water vapor.
* 1996: AMS Special Award " for developing a global, precise record of Earth's temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate " ( with Roy Spencer ).
The surface temperature of Gliese 876 is cooler than our Sun and the star has a smaller radius.
The total luminosity is 2. 96 times that of our Sun and its temperature 5960 K. The age of the star is estimated at approximately 3. 7 billion years, with metallicity 1. 35 times that of the Sun based on its abundance of iron.
The experiments simulate the climate back to 1860 ( which is when the global records of surface temperature became reliable )... After 1970 our model with greenhouse gases alone begins to depart significantly from the observations.
The effective temperature of our Sun is around 5780 kelvin ( K ).
Our results include our best estimate for the global temperature change and our estimates of the uncertainties in the record.

temperature and homes
They were not only used as an ornamental art form, but also had a specific functional capacity like temperature control at homes.
Convection is also used in engineering practices to provide desired temperature changes, as in heating of homes, industrial processes, cooling of equipment, etc.
Without any way to relieve the heat, even the inside of homes became ovens, with indoor temperature exceeding at night.
Most houseplants are tropical species selected for their adaptation to growth in a climate which ranges from 15 ° C to 25 ° C ( 60 ° F to 80 ° F ), similar to the temperature in most homes.
Designed and marketed by Earthship Biotecture of Taos, New Mexico, the homes are primarily constructed to work as autonomous buildings and are generally made of earth-filled tires, using thermal mass construction to naturally regulate indoor temperature.
These are commonplace in European homes and consist of high-density ceramic bricks heated to a high temperature with electricity, and well insulated to release heat over a number of hours.

temperature and is
The Bureau is pursuing an active program to provide a temperature scale and thermometer calibration services in the range 1.5 to 20 Af.
Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.
A study of the hydrogen line profiles indicates that a measurement of these profiles can be used to calculate a temperature for the arc plasma that is reliable to about Af percent.
The fruit is then cooled to 42-degrees-F., a temperature at which it lapses into a sort of dormant state.
This cooling does not change the avocado in any way, it just delays the natural softening of the fruit until a grovelike temperature ( room temperature ) is restored.
If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.
We know now that a 15-degree differential in temperature is the maximum usually desirable, and accurate controls assure the comfort we want.
Control of temperature and humidity is a godsend to the aged and the invalid.
Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.
Check the temperature gage and be sure it is working.
The thermostat is important to get your engine up to operating temperature quickly, and to keep it running at its most efficient temperature through the proper circulation of the coolant.
This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.
Mars has been observed twice at about 3-cm wave length, and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars.
The infrared emission could then be assumed to originate at the surface of the moon, while the radio emission originates at some depth beneath the surface, where the temperature variation due to solar radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase.
The concept of apparent black-body temperature is used to describe the radiation received from the moon and the planets.
The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.
The ratio of the measured antenna temperature change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found, by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram, to be 0.85.
The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

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