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autothermal

autothermal adjective: that is heated by the combustion of its own products.

Adjective

autothermal (not comparable)

  1. That is heated by the combustion of its own products
    • Methane autothermal reforming has been studied using comprehensive, detailed microkinetic mechanisms, and a hierarchically reduced rate expression has been derived without apriori assumptions.2016, Marm Dixit, Renika Baruah, Dhrupad Parikh, Sudhanshu Sharma, Atul Bhargav, “Autothermal Reforming of Methane on Rhodium Catalysts: Microkinetic Analysis for Model Reduction”, in arXiv

Origin of autothermal

From auto- + thermal.

Questions about autothermal

What does autothermal mean?
Autothermal means that is heated by the combustion of its own products.
What part of speech is autothermal?
Autothermal is an adjective.

Words near autothermal in the dictionary

  1. autotheories
  2. autotheory
  3. autotherapeutic
  4. autotherapies
  5. autotherapy
  6. autothermal
  7. autothermic
  8. autothermy
  9. autothonous
  10. autothrottle
  11. autothrottles

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