LYCOS RETRIEVER
Temperature
built 176 days ago
The Temperature Guard is a full featured remote temperature monitor and power alarm system. The Temperature Guard will monitor the temperature and power wherever it is located. When the Temperature Guard has an alarm, it will dial up to four emergency phone numbers and the integrated voice tells you the temperature and whether the power is on or off. You can ... call anytime and hear the temperature and the power status.
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Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. The application supports the following operations on the measured readings:
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Temperature records have ... become a key focal point for researchers attempting to understand global climate change. Some of the most convincing evidence that human activity plays an important role in climate change has come from studying changes in temperature. While there have been natural fluctuations in temperature since the Earth was formed, the drastic change in the Earth’s average temperature since the Industrial Age began has led many, though not all, scientists to conclude that humans are indeed facilitating global warming.
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Temperature is ... an important influence on water chemistry. Rates of chemical reactions also generally increase with increasing temperature. Temperature is a regulator of the solubility of gases and minerals (solids) – or how much of these materials can be dissolved in water. The solubility of important gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide increases as temperature decreases. For example, warm water contains less dissolved oxygen (DO) than cold water. Inversely the solubility of most minerals increases with increasing temperature.
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Temperature is ... important because of its influence on water chemistry. The rate of chemical reactions generally increases at higher temperature, which in turn affects biological activity. Warmer temperatures increase the solubility of salts in water but decrease (just the opposite !) the solubility of gasses in water. Warm soda pop going flat is an example of this effect. Another important example of the effects of temperature on water chemistry is its impact on oxygen. Warm water holds less oxygen that cool water, so it may be saturated with oxygen but still not contain enough for survival of aquatic invertebrates or certain fish.
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Temperature is measured with thermometers that may be calibrated to a variety of temperature scales. In most of the world (except for the United States, Jamaica, and a few other countries), the degree Celsius scale is used for most temperature measuring purposes. The entire scientific world (the U.S. included) measures temperature using the Celsius scale and thermodynamic temperature using the kelvin scale, which is just the Celsius scale shifted downwards so that 0 K[1]= −273.15 °C, or absolute zero. Many engineering fields in the U.S., especially high-tech ones... use the kelvin and degrees Celsius scales. However, the United States is the last major country in which the degree Fahrenheit temperature scale is used by most lay people, industry, popular meteorology, and government. Other engineering fields in the U.S. also rely upon the Rankine scale (a shifted Fahrenheit scale) when working in thermodynamic-related disciplines such as combustion.
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