Thermal Conductivity Quotes

Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.

In the process of making nanomaterials, we learned that with the electronic density of states, the phonon electronic properties and everything change at the nano-level. So the thermoelectric properties would also be changed.

Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.

Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.

Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

The proof of gold is fire.

In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an even keel ever since. Our honeymoon trip led us to the United States where I spent two post-doc years working on thermal conductivity of type-II superconductors and metals in the group of Professor Bernie Serin at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.

(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.