adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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energy
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The two comets are entirely ablated, whereas the stony objects lose most of their kinetic energy to deceleration, not ablation.
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Impact explosions begin with the nearly instantaneous conversion of the kinetic energy of motion of the impactor into heat.
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Meteor Crater in Arizona was excavated 10 4 yr ago by an iron object with a kinetic energy of 15Mton.
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This tiny rock carries enough kinetic energy to produce an explosion equivalent to several thousand tons of high explosives.
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Rapidly the temperature climbed to 5000 C as friction with the atmosphere turned the kinetic energy of the craft into heat.
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Rocket engineers speak loosely of thermal energy being converted into kinetic energy in the engine bell.
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In other words mammals and living creatures generate kinetic energy and heat when food is burnt in respiration.
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We know that kinetic energy increases as length raised to the fifth power.
theory
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The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory .
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It is well known in kinetic theory that reaction rates Increase rapidly with increases in temperature.
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Eighteen years later, commenting on the consequences of the kinetic theory , he wrote.
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All the important developments within the kinetic theory took place after this falsification.
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The increase in vapour pressure with temperature can be explained in terms of the kinetic theory .
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An attempt to reunite both channels of thought has been made by Adam and Gibbs who have outlined a molecular kinetic theory .
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The kinetic theory of gases is a mathematical model of an ideal gas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Impact explosions begin with the nearly instantaneous conversion of the kinetic energy of motion of the impactor into heat.
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In animals walking on force plates, there is a steady exchange of kinetic and gravitational energies.
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It is well known in kinetic theory that reaction rates Increase rapidly with increases in temperature.
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Meteor Crater in Arizona was excavated 10 4 yr ago by an iron object with a kinetic energy of 15Mton.
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Our apartment was generating serious energy, shifting from its usual somnambulism to a flushed and slightly kinetic mode.
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The kinetic energy, or energy of motion, of the ship has been exchanged for strain energy in the rope.
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The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory.
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This would lead into a study of kinetic and potential energy.