Sea ice is an effective thermal insulator, and thus freezing takes place much more rapidly on the top surface of the ice sheet than on the bottom.
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Blubber differs from other forms of adipose tissue in its extra thickness, which allows it to serve as an efficient thermal insulator, making blubber essential for thermoregulation.
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The low density of these foams makes them excellent as thermal insulators and flotation devices, and their lightness and compressibility makes them ideal as packing materials and stuffings.
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Frost is, compared to moving air, a thermal insulator, so once frost forms, the exchanger temerature drops, forming more frost, ending up with bulk ice and no efficeincy.
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The main role of thermal grease is to eliminate air gaps or spaces ( which act as thermal insulator ) from the interface area so as to maximize heat transfer.
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It was different O-rings _ protective seals rather than thermal insulators _ that failed and allowed gas to leak through a joint on one of Challenger's booster rockets in 1986.
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In electrically insulating solids, phonon-based heat conduction is " usually " inefficient and such solids are considered " thermal insulators " ( such as glass, plastic, rubber, ceramic, and rock ).
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The phone simply acts as a thermal insulator and reflects heat back onto the ear which otherwise would be radiated away . talk ) 19 : 12, 22 December 2012 ( UTC)
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Hubbard also reveals that he plans to use the sapphire as a rocket engine thermal insulator; he would build more powerful rockets capable of finally colonizing Mercury and the moons of Jupiter for profit.
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:Aerogel is a very good thermal insulator, but I don't think you'll get a much better answer then " it depends " . . talk ) 05 : 23, 19 August 2011 ( UTC)
