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thermal

[thur-muhl] / ˈθɜr məl /


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In the first half of the year prices averaged negative $2.19 per million British thermal units at the region’s Waha trading hub.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Moores has taken his drones out as many as 30 times, mostly at night and in the early morning, when thermal imaging works better—and the capybara, a crepuscular species, is most active.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

By combining thermal conductivity measurements with neutron scattering data, the team was able to directly connect the dramatic increase in heat flow to changes in the atomic vibrations inside the crystal.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

"There must be a lot of hot material near the surface to generate so many thermal anomalies," said Simon Carn, a volcanologist at Michigan Tech.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Waterproof boots, a snowsuit that covers me from head to toe, thermal gloves.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

In the first, a quadrotor drone was able to observe four hovering white balls while avoiding four orange balls, all while navigating an airfield rife with randomly occurring, dangerous air currents, or thermals.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2024

"And at six o'clock on a January morning it was unbelievably cold - even the thermals we had on underneath our tracksuits weren't much help."

From BBC Nov. 30, 2023

As spectators chant and funnel into the tree-lined stadium, the day starts to warm, which is when spotted lanternflies can be found rising into the air on thermals.

From National Geographic Aug. 31, 2023

Vultures, another raptor, are easy to spot in the early afternoon because they “get up on the thermals and fly miles and miles and miles” looking for food, he said.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

Twenty more seconds before she rode out the flare and was running on thermals.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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