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- Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
3: ...caduceus]]. Before the [[5th century BC]], the planet Mercury actually had two names, as it was not rea...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elemen...
8: ...ww.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
12: ...[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior. - Cold-blooded (1564 bytes)
3: Ectotherms depend largely on external sources of heat, such as [[solar radiation]]. As the environment...
4: ...ded]] animal will use up to 98% of its energy for heat production, an ectotherm has all this energy avai...
16: ...imes. For example, all animals are at risk of overheating on hot days in the desert sun, and most homeot... - American football (39287 bytes)
173: ...vania]], between the Latrobe [[YMCA]] and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.)....
207: ...ircumvent this: apparently efforts to cool an overheated patient quickly, by wetting a large fraction of... - Kiln (1778 bytes)
4: ...lso used to chemically refine [[clay]] objects by heating them until a chrystaline [[Matrix (geology)|ma...
6: ... over a course of time. Care must be taken not to heat the kiln too rapidly or to too high a temperature...
8: ...h that a fire could be lit at the bottom, and the heat would rise up into the kiln. - Food (24212 bytes)
51: ...], [[maize]], [[oat]]s, [[rice]], [[rye]], and [[wheat]]
52: ** Cereals from non-grasses, including [[buckwheat]], [[amaranth]], and [[quinoa]]
99: ..., such as [[spice]]s. It may also involve mixing, heating or cooling, [[pressure cooking]], [[fermentati...
114: ...tive|Additive]]s, [[Flavoring]], [[Enzyme]]s, [[Genetically modified food]], [[Pasteurization]], [[Shel...
168: ...niques for killing [[bacterium|bacteria]] using [[heat]] and other [[microbiology|microbiological]] stud... - Cereal (6537 bytes)
11: *[[wheat]], the primary cereal of [[temperate climate|temp...
18: ...alt|malting]] and livestock on land too poor for wheat
21: *[[spelt]], a close relative of wheat
29: *[[buckwheat]]
35: ...age:040719_172_dorset_marnhull.jpg|thumb|220px|A wheat field in [[Dorset]], [[England]].]] - Mitochondrion (10103 bytes)
9: ...pear as a highly branched, interconnected tubular network. Observations of [[fluorescence|fluorescently...
23: ...f [[DNA]]. Thus, mitochondria possess their own genetic material, and the machinery to manufacture thei...
34: * Heat production (enabling the organism to stay warm)
55: ==Use in population genetic studies==
56: ''Main article: [[mitochondrial genetics]]'' - Thunderstorm (7337 bytes)
30: ... the water vapour condenses into liquid, [[latent heat]] is released which warms the air, causing it to ... - Precipitation (meteorology) (2923 bytes)
2: ... depositing most of the [[fresh water]] on the planet. Precipitation is generated in [[cloud]]s, which ...
12: ...t up faster than air or water bodies). As the air heats up it rises. Inevitably cooling will result, and... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
6: ...e [[atmospheric circulation]] system, which moves heat from the equatorial region toward the higher lati...
8: ==A heat engine==
9: ...l cyclone can be thought of as a giant vertical [[heat engine]].
13: ...he atmosphere. In order to continue to drive its heat engine, a tropical cyclone must remain over warm ...
40: ...itudes if its energy source changes from released heat through condensing water to the difference in tem... - Fog (4764 bytes)
5: ... produces [[condensation]] in the nearby air by [[heat conduction]]. In perfect calm the fog layer can b...
31: ... have attempted to develop methods (such as using heaters or salt particles) to aid '''fog disperal'''. ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ... and bulk composition. Although all planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Ven...
9: ...rean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elemen...
14: ... planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
16: ...O<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere is what traps the heat by the greenhouse mechanism.
18: ...] and [[sulfuric acid]] droplets and cover the planet completely, obscuring any surface details from th... - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
4: ...rbecue is usually cooked in a covered environment heated by an outdoor open flame of [[wood]], [[charcoa...
6: ...ect methods of cooking, with the more direct high-heat methods to be called "grilling". In the parts of ...
10: ...ue is almost always a slow process using indirect heat or hot smoke. For example, in a typical home gri...
23: ... flavored in numerous ways after removed from the heat.
26: ...bove the flame or other source of heat. With low heat barbecuing, the food is off to the side and almos... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
4: ... | [[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click ima...
137: ...lanet in the [[solar system]] after [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Saturn has large rings made mainly o...
140: ...urn is also the only one of the Solar System's planets less dense than water, with an average specific ...
142: ...turn's interior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter...
144: ...n has a warm polar [[vortex]], and is the only planet in the solar system known to do so. - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
136: ...ric orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Ne...
138: ...acecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on [[August 25]], [[1989]].
142: ...h, thought to be powered by this flow of internal heat.
144: ... (planet)|Uranus]]. There is likely to be a [[planetary core|core]] consisting of (molten) rock and me...
146: ...characteristic of flows in the interior of the planet and not the result of Uranus' sideways orientatio... - Lightning rod (7638 bytes)
28: ...rength and explosions from [[Steam explosion|superheated steam]] and air. - American Black Bear (15019 bytes)
34: ...e to den, and when and where to seek shelter from heat or danger. - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
20: ...ible. Only the pads of their feet emit detectable heat. - Numbat (6437 bytes)
21: ...ature with a very long, thin, sticky tongue for penetrating into termite colonies, and powerful forelim...
25: ...summer they rise earlier, take shelter during the heat of the day, and feed again in the late afternoon. - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ...ty passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air, producing lightning's chara...
33: ...under]] is caused when the discharge rapidly superheats the leader channel, causing a [[shock wave]] to ...
55: ...means for the positive leader to conduct away the net negative charge collected during development, all...
81: ===Heat or summer lightning===
83: ...t thunderstorms are approaching. In [[Florida]], heat lightning is often seen out over the water at nig...
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