Thermoelectric meaning

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Characteristic of, resulting from, or using electrical phenomena occurring in conjunction with a flow of heat.
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Of or having to do with the direct relations between heat and electricity.
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Relating to electric potential or power produced by heat, or to heat produced by electric energy. The thermoelectric energy of a nuclear power plant is produced by the heat generated from nuclear fission. The thermoelectric properties of materials such as selenium and semiconductors are exploited in devices such as thermistors and thermocouples used in temperature gauges.
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Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting thermoelectricity.
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Thermoelectric Sentence Examples

  • The order of the metals in respect of the Peltier effect was found to be the same as the thermoelectric series.

  • (2) If the Peltier effect was proportional to the thermoelectric power and changed sign with it, as all experiments appeared to indicate, there would A B be no absorption of heat C in the circuit due to the Peltier effect, and therefore no thermal source to account for the energy of the current, in the case in which the hot junction was at or above the neutral temperature.

  • Thermoelectric Relations.

  • the hot junction is raised to 270 C., at which temperature the thermoelectric power vanishes and the metals are said to be neutral to one another.

  • Edin., 1851) that this conclusion was inconsistent with the known facts of thermoelectric inversion.

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