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2. Radiator (heating) - Wikipedia

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   This sets up convective loops of air movement within a room. If the radiator is blocked either from above or below, this air movement is prevented, and the heater will not work. Baseboard heating systems are sometimes fitted with moveable covers to allow the resident to fine-tune heating by room, much like air registers in a central air system.

3. Radiator - Wikipedia

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   The Roman hypocaust is an early example of a type of radiator for building space heating. Franz San Galli, a Prussian-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg, is credited with inventing the heating radiator around 1855, [1] [2] having received a radiator patent in 1857, [3] but American Joseph Nason developed a primitive radiator in 1841 [4] and received a number of U.S. patents for ...

4. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning - Wikipedia

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   Heaters exist for various types of fuel, including solid fuels, liquids, and gases. Another type of heat source is electricity, normally heating ribbons composed of high resistance wire (see Nichrome). This principle is also used for baseboard heaters and portable heaters. Electrical heaters are often used as backup or supplemental heat for ...

5. Aluminized steel - Wikipedia

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   Hot-dip coated with a thin layer of aluminium-silicon alloy. 5% to 11% added silicon promotes better adherence. It is intended principally for heat resisting applications and also for uses where corrosion resistance and heat are required. Possible end uses are mufflers, furnaces, ovens, ranges, heaters, water heaters, fireplaces, and baking pans.

6. Heating element - Wikipedia

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   These heaters can be printed on a variety of substrates including metal, ceramic, glass, and polymer using metal- or alloy-loaded thick-film pastes. [13] The most common substrates used to print thick-film heaters are aluminum 6061-T6, stainless steel, and muscovite or phlogopite mica sheets. The applications and operational characteristics of ...

7. Opinion: Jimmy Carter had a second term. It just wasn't in ...

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   If it’s in the news right now, the L.A. Times’ Opinion section covers it. Sign up for our weekly opinion newsletter. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .