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adiabatic process
(redirected from Adiabatic heating)

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Noun1.adiabatic process - (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat
thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy
natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"


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Hillmansen (7) demonstrated, by increasing the crosshead speed in a series of dog-bone tensile tests, that adiabatic heating eventually destabilized drawing.
Applying high hydrostatic pressure on a commercial basis to inactivate bacterial spores requires a knowledge of pressure-induced adiabatic heating and an understanding of the potential interactive synergistic effects on ionic and other equilibria in the end product and on the target organisms themselves.
p] with further increases in test speed may have reflected a local increase in matrix mobility linked to adiabatic heating (24), a 50 K increase in temperature being observed ahead of the crack tip at speeds of 0.
 
 
 
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