Sentences with phrase «radiated heat»

It heats up in sunlight like most other compounds, but it does not radiate its heat into its surroundings as much.

6 Greenhouse Gasses Sunlight heats up Earth's surface Earth radiates heat back into the air Greenhouse gasses absorb this heat and don't let Earth's heat out

In 1900 Max Planck discovered that bodies do not radiate heat in a continuous stream but in small packets of energy, called quanta.

The cookie cools off by radiating heat away and by warming the air that it touches.

Also, if radiative limits are preventing tropical precipitation, wouldn't that just increase the height of the convection cell, if it can't radiate heat as efficiently?

With climate and Greenhouse Gas thoeries of Global warming, it appears to me that of most interest is the interface between the Earth's atmosphere and space and the flow of radiated heat from the sun, what's reflected back from Earth's surface and the consequences of any change in that balance.

The sun brings heat, and earth radiates heat back into space — but the numbers did not balance.

This gas then radiates its heat into space as infrared light.

-- After 2 - 3 weeks, you will notice you shiver less and your body radiates heat more.

«Our photonic crystal thermal overlay optimizes use of the thermal portions of the electromagnetic spectrum without affecting visible light,» Zhu said, «so you can radiate heat efficiently without affecting color.»

I can relate to a lot of it, my husband also radiates heat as he sleeps and doesn't want to upgrade to a King yet.

Most heat loss occurs when unprotected surfaces radiate heat away from the body.

Her nose ran, her appetite disappeared and her little body radiated heat.

«This new surface, however, stayed 11 degrees or more colder than an existing state - of - the - art white roof nearby because it absorbs only 3 per cent of incident sunlight while simultaneously strongly radiating heat at infrared wavelengths that are not absorbed by the atmosphere,» said Emeritus Professor Geoff Smith from the university.

The thin atmosphere allows Mars to more easily radiate heat energy away, so temperatures near the equator can get up to 70 °F (21 °C) during a summer day, and then drop down to − 100 °F (− 73 °C) at night.

Simply changing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere by 30 percent has major impacts in the adiabatic lapse rate and the rate at which radiated heat is passed from the planet.

Furious, I raced through the math exercises, glared at the lists of words for memorization, and counted numbers until my frontal lobes began to radiate heat through my forehead.

But clouds also radiate heat back to earth since clouds are warmer than deep space.

Cui and coworkers tested the material on a device that simulates how skin radiates heat.

Sleeping Pads: These Therm - a-Rest compact sleeping pads give you cushion and help radiate heat back to your body.

The Earth and its atmosphere radiate heat away into space.

This is discussed in this SkS post, but briefly; greenhouse gases radiate heat (longwave radiation) back toward the surface and, although they can not penetrate into the ocean itself, they warm the uppermost surface of the thin cool - skin layer.

There wasn't a problem with radiated heat in the past, but this helps prevent bodywork from burning when the car is stationary.

Near the vessel's keel, divers can find thermal vents that radiate heated water from deep underground.

As the Sun radiates heat to the Earth, different surfaces absorb the heat energy in different ways.

Meaning a 1 % drop in the temperature of the earth will cause a 4 % drop in radiated heat off the earth's surface.

Sunlight comes in and the Earth radiates heat outwards, to cooler outer space — just as the laws of physics suggest.

So, the absorber would be able to radiate heat during stagnation events more readily — albeit with some loss in efficiency.

Paint over it or put tiles or parquet on top, then plug it in and it starts radiating heat without needing a difficult installation or taking up space.

But NYC just radiates heat.

My breasts radiated heat and actually pulsed.

HEAT ISLAND EFFECT: If installed widely, green roofs could lower a city's cooling load, especially at night when bare rooftops radiate heat absorbed during the day.

Materials scientists and engineers at Stanford University have developed a multilayered textile that traps body heat on one side and passively radiates heat away from the body when flipped inside out.

But Stone predicts that because species in hot environments evolve body shapes that radiate heat better, climate change will cause humans to grow taller and slimmer.

WISE's longer - wavelength detectors will be cryogenically cooled to just 8 kelvin, or about — 265 degrees Celsius; warm instruments can contaminate infrared observations with their own radiated heat.

The problem is that the planet radiates heat back toward the instruments hiding behind that shade, says Messenger engineer Dan O'Shaughnessy.

The film senses temperature using a mechanism similar — but not identical — to the pit organs in vipers, which allow the snakes to sense warm prey in the dark by detecting radiated heat.

He concluded that the probes» generators were probably radiating heat in the direction of travel; that trickle of energy acted like a small forward jet, slowing the craft.

This happens in part because trees in warmer, maritime forests radiate heat in the form of long - wave radiation to a greater degree than the sky does.

The red spot in the center of the zoom oval, unrelated to the new study's findings, is a young star whose radiating heat has lit up a surrounding cocoon of dust.

Infrared saunas, which employ radiating heat, are considered more effective that regular saunas that work more like ovens — heating outside the body rather than inside.

Hot flashes are episodes of intense radiating heat experienced by many women around the time of menopause.

The rocks in turn radiate heat and keep the water from freezing.

One way a dog radiates heat is through their feat pads, so when they can't avoid heated ground (such as pavement), it can create a dangerous situation for them.