thermal
The thermally insulated body will keep boiled water hot for longer.
Radio waves can kill the cancer cells thermally without affecting healthy tissue.
These fish inhabit the most thermally stable ocean environment on Earth.

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thermally
A large statistical database has been obtained which provides considerable insight to the structural and transport properties of thermally stratified turbulence.
This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures.
It states that entropy in any thermally closed system cannot decrease.
The amplification part can give almost perfect compensation for the thermally induced birefringence.
Relativistic flows of thermally anisotropic plasmas will be investigated in the next paper of this series.
Instead, the sample may have been thermally disturbed.
The aim was to study of several energetic ion groups above thermally generated ions.
It consists of a thermally driven flow up the hot wall and down the cold wall such that the horizontal density gradient is nearly zero.
One can see that the number of the thermally ablated atoms is close to the number of atoms in a monoatomic layer.
The water column remained thermally stratified throughout the remaining record.
The entrance fluid temperature is thermostated and the thermally non-active parts of the tubes are insulated.
This heat is transported vertically, to colder levels of the atmosphere where it is radiated thermally to space.
A thermally generated buoyancy flux was established by circulating heated water through a manifold behind a copper plate acting as the basin surface.
As expected, significant diffusion is observed in the thermally annealed control samples.
The reduced dimension slab edges, via thermally broken connections, are attached to precast lintels that are expressed on the street and rear facade.
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