Thermophobic
Thermophobic
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Is that the correct word to use to describe material that responds by moving away, when heat is applied to it?
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RE: Thermophobic
Thermophobia is fear from heat. What about thermally repelled ?
RE: Thermophobic
I've never seen it with respect to materials, but there's always a first time. I would be against using that term because I don't think that a material is capable of fear.
I would find thermoreactive (neologism?) preferable to thermophobic.
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What about thermofugal?
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JMW
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I too am uncomfortable attributing fear to a material. But as The Tick and UcfSE conjecture, it appears hydrophobic set a precedent.
The other suggestions don't work because they do not describe the phenomenon of moving away from a heat source, never towards it.
I thought of thermally evasive, but like 25362's thermally repelled, it just doesn't get the message that this material REACTS to heat by shrinking away from it.
RE: Thermophobic
how about:
athermoaffinitive
?
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see also: THERMOPHORESIS
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The one above is more related to heat pushing molecules around. There's also thermokinetic, but it's more general (moves when hot).
You could go with a made-up word, like
thermoretractive
RE: Thermophobic
Thermophoretic as used in the abstract of the paper "Thermophoretic Motion of a Spherical Aerosol Particle in a Cylindrical Pore" Authors: Lu S-Y.1; Lee C-T.1. Seem to have a bet each way.
rhodie
Is there a reference?
RE: Thermophobic
Of or relating to. Having the nature of.
The people reading this paper will be familiar with thermo and understand phobia. I guess they need to understand what is meant in this context and thermophobic won't send them rushing to a dictionary.
Just saw your last post.
Thermoretractive will work well. Thanks ivymike
RE: Thermophobic
Thermophobic describes the tendency of an inorganic particle or organism to non-hot conditions, and by implication cold conditions.
Perhaps this is a good one for one the materials forums.
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aerobic and anaerobic describes both the toward and away phenomena, so can we try thermic and athermic? though this may not be quite right since athermic refers to materials that reflect heat away.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: Thermophobic
A quick Google search immediately shows two contexts for thermophobic in a materials science sense.
Electronic components are thermophobic; they are susceptible to damage from high heat (especially soldering).
Many foams are thermophobic; they lose their "foamy" properties with higher temperatures. Anyone who shaves with a blade has probably noticed this.
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"Discussion:
(1) Scorched material is evidence excessive heat was introduced at some point of time, presumably to assist removal of the XXXXXXX and at a temperature sufficient to cause partial carbonisation of part of the XXXXXX. There is no other reasonable explanation. The XXXXXX, is made of XXXXXXX which is slightly thermoretractive as can be evidenced when exposed well beyond maximum operating temperature. Being dense as well as solid, it is reasonable to expect part of the XXXXXX shall distort outwards to compensate a thermoretraction.".............
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(Just trying to make you rewrite the paragraph again)
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More evidence that some people think they can verb any noun they like.
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evidence -> to evidence
Heh heh... nothing stops me! There's no such thing as can or cannot verb a noun, it's just a matter of habit. Why prove and not evidence?
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I do find that sentence somewhat awkward. How about -
The XXXXXX is made of XXXXXXX, which is slightly thermo-retractive as can be observed when it's exposed to temperatives beyond the operating maximum.
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
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Whatever the selected word, xxxxxx would belong to the family of thermotropics as mentioned by JMW.
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So how about thermoretrocedant? Or thermally retrocedant. Thermoretrogradiant? Thermally retrogradiant?
Just my $0.02!
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Very simple, yet still describing retreat from a heat source.
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Good Luck
johnwm
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