mechanocaloric

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describing the production of heat by mechanical means, but especially the heating of liquid helium as some of it (the coldest atoms) escapes through minute pores.

Word forms

mechanocaloric

Etymology

From mechano- + caloric.

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