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  2. Heat detector - Wikipedia

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    A residential heat detector. A heat detector is a fire alarm device designed to respond when the convected thermal energy of a fire increases the temperature of a heat sensitive element. The thermal mass and conductivity of the element regulate the rate flow of heat into the element. All heat detectors have this thermal lag. Heat detectors have ...

  3. Thermography - Wikipedia

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    Thermography, by strict definition, is a measurement using an instrument, but some living creatures have natural organs that function as counterparts to bolometers, and thus possess a crude type of thermal imaging capability. This is called thermoception. One of the best known examples is infrared sensing in snakes.

  4. Extremophiles in biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    It is these traits that have scientists so fixated on extremophiles because the genes that allow for said abilities can be taken from extremophiles and used in various biotechnical processes. A good example of this would be how Taq Polymerase was isolated from the bacteria Thermus aquaticus and was then used to make the process of PCR possible. [5]

  5. Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines - Wikipedia

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    By definition, different streamlines at the same instant in a flow do not intersect, because a fluid particle cannot have two different velocities at the same point. Pathlines are allowed to intersect themselves or other pathlines (except the starting and end points of the different pathlines, which need to be distinct).

  6. Differential scanning calorimetry - Wikipedia

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    For example, as a solid sample melts to a liquid, it will require more heat flowing to the sample to increase its temperature at the same rate as the reference. This is due to the absorption of heat by the sample as it undergoes the endothermic phase transition from solid to liquid.

  7. Linear heat detection - Wikipedia

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    Linear heat detection (LHD) cable is essentially a two-core cable terminated by an end-of-line resistor (resistance varies with application). The two cores are separated by a polymer plastic, that is designed to melt at a specific temperature (commonly 68 °C for building applications [1]), and without which causes the two cores to short.

  8. Infrared detector - Wikipedia

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    An infrared detector is a detector that reacts to infrared (IR) radiation. The two main types of detectors are thermal and photonic ( photodetectors ). The thermal effects of the incident IR radiation can be followed through many temperature dependent phenomena. [ 2 ]

  9. Infrared sensing in snakes - Wikipedia

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    The facial pit underwent parallel evolution in pitvipers and some boas and pythons.It evolved once in pitvipers and multiple times in boas and pythons. [6] The electrophysiology of the structure is similar between the two lineages, but they differ in gross structural anatomy.