Sentences with phrase «as heat sinks»

Internal fins act as heat sinks, absorbing heat from engine coolant and radiating it through external fins to dissipate heat twice as fast.

Indeed, a number of Scandinavian cities, including Stockholm, use bodies of water as heat sinks and have been doing so for more than a decade.

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

It does have an on / off switch, which is hard to find among budget models, as well as heat sinks.

In the summer, the process is reversed and the yard acts as a heat sink to cool the house.»

The norm for cooling an LED (which is actually a semiconductor that converts electricity into light) has been to place a copper or aluminum tube near the light to act as a heat sink and draw away excess heat.

Bond conceived the idea of using the ultracold liquid hydrogen fuel as a heat sink to take the excess heat out of the incoming air and use some of the hot air to support fuel combustion.

1) A better understanding of how the ocean will act in the future as a heat sink.

One of the most plausible reasons for the recent slowdown in warming is that the deep ocean has been acting as a heat sink, taking up more warming than the land has in recent years.

Our aquaculture system grows fish, provides high - nitrogen fertilizer, grows food year round, acts as a heat sink to balance greenhouse temperatures, and is where most of our rooting propagation occurs.

The 11.8 axle cover doubles as a heat sink.

I always thought the ocean served as a heat sink as long as the ocean's bulk temperature was colder than the surface's and the surface temperature was increasing.

Well the tropical oceans are colder in the depths because the poles act as a heat sink.

The land and seas act as a heat sink.

The oceans are acting as a heat sink for rising temperatures and have absorbed about one - third of the carbon dioxide produced by human activities.

The situation is rather like that of the home computer builder who puts a massive slab of copper on the CPU to serve as the heat sink, with no fins or fan.

The equilibrium climate sensitivity will be about 50 % greater than this due to the ocean acting as a heat sink, so the ECS will be about 3C, in line with the mean estimate from the models.

By acting as a heat sink, the polar cell moves the abundant heat from the equator toward the polar regions.

Conceptually, Kosaka & Xie are using the ocean as a heat sink and / or heat source to lend and / or borrow heat to / from so as to modify the ocean surface temperatures.

British designer Jake Dyson has built a heat pipe into the structure of the CSYS lamp to carry the heat away from the LEDs and then use the arm of the lamp as a heat sink to carry the heat away from the lamp.

A dark object warming up more in the sun than a light colored object is not referred to as a heat sink.

Finally, while both bulbs are a little on the large side, as the heat sink at the base is a bit elongated, they should fit fine in most fixtures.

All of the components responsible for the heavy lifting in the Mac Pro are arranged around a unique thermal core, a single piece of extruded aluminum serving as a heat sink for the entire machine.

In addition to the new wider field of view and high - performance lenses, Google has also improved the flap where you situate your phone when placing it in the headset, making it more grippy so the phone stays in place better, and it added magnesium heat pipes inside this flap to act as a heat sink that Google boasts will help the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL run apps without heat issues, which was a common problem with the original Pixel phones and the first Daydream View headset that were launched last year, often getting hot after using it for a certain amount of time.

The floors acted as a heat sink, capturing the sunlight from the large, south - facing windows.

Not exact matches

The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

But as the heating continues, eventually a closed loop of molecular movement develops in some region — a column of rising molecules happens to be next to a stack of sinking units — so that a more or less circular path becomes available.

With the previous batch of this coffee I received, the plastic ring would distort from the heat of brewing and the cup would sink into the k - cup holder in the coffee maker and proceed to empty the grounds into your cup as well as all over the inside of the brewing chamber.

Let sit uncovered 1 — 3 hours (chiles will get less spicy as they soak; in 1 hour, they'll sink to the heat level of a jalapeño).

Heat as needed, pouring the hot liquid into a sink or basin and soak your sore and aching breasts.

Finally, all the climate models assume different amounts of energy stored on Earth that is transferred to the ocean depths, which act as an enormous heat sink.

The single - person sleeping tents are slowly sinking as the ambient body heat of their occupants, along with the absorption of warmth from 24 - hour daylight melts the snow underneath.

«To put this in some kind of context, if those small scale eddies did not increase with wind stress then the saturation of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean sink would occur twice as rapidly and more heat would enter our atmosphere and sooner.»

As global temperature rises, most of the extra heat in the atmosphere — about 90 percent — sinks into the ocean.

That could be important as electronic devices shrink and require more sophisticated heat sinks.

As a result, there has been a reduction in the heat exchange over the locations where sinking occurs in the ocean.

It has long been thought that heat flow drives what is called thermal convection — the hottest liquid becomes less dense and rises, as the cooler, more - dense liquid sinks — in Earth's liquid iron core and generates Earth's magnetic field.

That's because as water heats up, it expands, becoming lighter than the water below it and less likely to sink.

As air sinks it warms, and this also inhibits the formation of showers and thunderstorms that could offer some heat relief.

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

Heat as needed, pouring the hot liquid into a sink or basin and soak your sore and aching breasts.

As with all of Bunkabin's sleeper units, the two variants include thermostat - controlled heating, flushing toilets, powerful mains pressure showers, large sinks and heated towel rails.

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overall, the solution is relatively compact, with the cooling tubes and radiator taking up about as much space as a large air - cooling heat sink.

Many of the ranch buildings were built between 1900 and 1940 with newer facilities added throughout the years, such as a heated outdoor pool, sunken tennis courts, and 24 - hour fitness center.

As the sun sinks toward the ocean, heat up the barbecue for dinner at the al - fresco table, gather around the firepit or soak in the hot tub.

Make the most of the tropical weather with two pools, and loungers in the sun and the shade of a bale, heating up the barbecue as the sun sinks toward the horizon.

Hotel - style beds 79 inches x 63 inches (with optional twin - bed configuration) Private wraparound veranda off the spacious living room offers 270 - degree views Floor - to - ceiling sliding glass doors, known as a French balcony, in the bedroom Large bathroom with double sinks, shower, heated mirror & floor, premium bath products Telephone, refrigerator, safe, hair dryer & bottled water replenished daily Bathrobe and slippers available upon request Individual climate control.

As the sun sinks toward the neighboring island of Molokai, heat up the barbecue, sample local seafood at the al - fresco dining area and try to stay awake for some stargazing — Hawaii is, after all, the world's most remote island chain.

As the sun sinks in the sky, heat up the barbecue in the outdoor kitchen area and gather on the raised platform that houses the al - fresco dining area.