Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Trouton's rule — Trouton’s rule states that the entropy of vaporization is almost the same value, about 87 88 J K 1 mol 1, for various kinds of liquids. The entropy of vaporization is defined as the ratio between the enthalpy of vaporization and the boiling… … Wikipedia
Frederick Thomas Trouton — FRS (24 November, 1863 ndash; 21 September, 1922) was an Irish physicist known for Trouton s Rule and experiments to detect the Earth s motion through the luminiferous aether.Trouton was born in Dublin in 1863 and attended Trinity College there,… … Wikipedia
1922 in Ireland — Events*January 2 The first edition of the newspaper Poblacht na hÉireann is published. It is established by republican opponents to the Anglo Irish Treaty who declare their fealty to the Irish Republic. *January 6 The terms of the Anglo Irish… … Wikipedia
1863 in Ireland — Events*The Ulster Railway, which began construction in 1839, reaches Clones. *28 November First edition of The Irish People . [cite book | last=Moody, TW Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press … Wikipedia
Luminiferous aether — The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century, luminiferous aether or ether, meaning light bearing aether, was the term used to describe a medium for the… … Wikipedia
Melting point — For the physical processes that takes place at the melting point, see Melting, Freezing and Crystallization The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid… … Wikipedia
Phase transition — This diagram shows the nomenclature for the different phase transitions. A phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another. A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter… … Wikipedia
Degenerate matter — is matter that has such extraordinarily high density that the dominant contribution to its pressure is attributable to the Pauli exclusion principle.[1] The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure, and … Wikipedia
Plasma (physics) — For other uses, see Plasma. Plasma lamp, illustrating some of the more complex phenomena of a plasma, including filamentation. The colors are a result of relaxation of electrons in excited states to lower energy states after they have recombined… … Wikipedia
Critical line (thermodynamics) — In thermodynamics, a critical line is the higher dimensional equivalent of a critical point [1]. It is the locus of contiguous critical points in a phase diagram. These lines cannot occur for a single substance due to the phase rule, but they can … Wikipedia
