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chemothermal

chemothermal adjective: chemical and thermal, but especially related to heat gained or lost in a chemical reaction.

Adjective

chemothermal (not comparable)

  1. (physical) chemical and thermal, but especially related to heat gained or lost in a chemical reaction
    • We conclude that fragmentation occurs because #92;rmH#95;2 cooling, the heating due to #92;rmH#95;2 formation and compressional heating together set a density and temperature structure in the disk that favors fragmentation, not the chemothermal instability..2015, Jayanta Dutta, “Does the chemothermal instability have any role in the fragmentation of primordial gas”, in The Astrophysical Journal, volume 811

Origin of chemothermal

From chemo- + -thermal.

Questions about chemothermal

What does chemothermal mean?
Chemothermal means chemical and thermal, but especially related to heat gained or lost in a chemical reaction.
What part of speech is chemothermal?
Chemothermal is an adjective.

Words near chemothermal in the dictionary

  1. chemotherapic
  2. chemotherapies
  3. chemotherapist
  4. chemotherapists
  5. chemotherapy
  6. chemothermal
  7. chemotic
  8. chemoton
  9. chemotons
  10. chemotopic
  11. chemotopically

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