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  2. Air mass (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, air mass or airmass is a measure of the amount of air along the line of sight when observing a star or other celestial source from below Earth's atmosphere . It is formulated as the integral of air density along the light ray .

  3. List of thermal conductivities - Wikipedia

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    ≈Typical Air [31] Air in motor windings at normal pressure, Lasance approximations 360 Kelvins 10 −2 meters: 0.03039 10 −3 meters: 0.03038 10 −4 meters: 0.03031 10 −5 meters: 0.02959 List, TPRC Vol 3 page 512. [24] [28] 360 An investigator has reported some high values for the thermal conductivity of some metal air laminates both ...

  4. Thermal conductance and resistance - Wikipedia

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    It quantifies how effectively a material can resist the transfer of heat through conduction, convection, and radiation. It has the units square metre kelvins per watt (m 2 ⋅K/W) in SI units or square foot degree Fahrenheit–hours per British thermal unit (ft 2 ⋅°F⋅h/Btu) in imperial units. The higher the thermal insulance, the better a ...

  5. Thermal conduction - Wikipedia

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    Thermal conduction is the diffusion of thermal energy (heat) within one material or between materials in contact. The higher temperature object has molecules with more kinetic energy; collisions between molecules distributes this kinetic energy until an object has the same kinetic energy throughout.

  6. Heat transfer coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The heat transfer coefficient is the heat transferred per unit area per kelvin. Thus area is included in the equation as it represents the area over which the transfer of heat takes place. The areas for each flow will be different as they represent the contact area for each fluid side.

  7. Air mass - Wikipedia

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    Continental and superior air masses are dry, while maritime and monsoon air masses are moist. Weather fronts separate air masses with different density (temperature or moisture) characteristics. Once an air mass moves away from its source region, underlying vegetation and water bodies can quickly modify its character. Classification schemes ...

  8. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    The process of heat transfer from one place to another place without the movement of particles is called conduction, such as when placing a hand on a cold glass of water—heat is conducted from the warm skin to the cold glass, but if the hand is held a few inches from the glass, little conduction would occur since air is a poor conductor of heat.

  9. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The kilogram is the only coherent SI unit whose name and symbol include a prefix. For historical reasons, the names and symbols for multiples and sub-multiples of the unit of mass are formed as if the gram were the base unit. Prefix names and symbols are attached to the unit name gram and the unit symbol g respectively.