Baby, It's Cold Outside – or how hot is hot, how cold is cold?

Is the Plasma within Bubbles and Superbubbles Hot or Cold?

Is the Plasma within Bubbles and Superbubbles Hot or Cold?

I review what is known about the temperature of the plasma within stellar wind bubbles and superbubbles. Classical theory suggests that it should be hot, with characteristic temperatures of order a million degrees. This temperature should be set by the balance between heating by the internal termination shocks of the central stellar winds and supernovae, which expand at thousands of km s, and c...

Firing Hot, Firing Cold: How Poikilotherms Compensate for Temperature Swings

If you are reading this, you have one less problem than the crabs that are the subject of a new study in this issue of PLoS Biology. Humans, like all mammals (as well as birds), are ‘‘warm-blooded,’’ or more correctly ‘‘homeothermic,’’ meaning we maintain our core body organs at a constant temperature. We expend considerable energy to do so, and may die when we cannot. In contrast, crabs, cod, ...

Cold and hot.

Hot & Cold Working

Q.1. What is hot working ? State its principles, advantages and disadvantages. Ans. Mechanical working of metals above its recrystallisation temperature is known as hot working. Advantages : 1. Larger deformation can be accomplished and more rapidly by hot working since the metal is in plastic state. 2. Porosity of the metal is considerably minimised. 3. Concentrated impurities, if any in the m...