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Adiabatic  adj.  (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. Note: The adiabatic expansion of carbon dioxide from a compressed container causes the temperature of the gas to decrease rapidly below its freezing point, resulting in the familiar carbon dioxide "snow" emitted by carbon dioxide fire extinguishers.
Adiabatic line or Adiabatic curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat.






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... and STEAM-ENGINE.) In Carnot's cycle the substance takes in heat at its highest temperature, then passes by adiabatic expansion from the top to the bottom of its temperature range, then rejects heat at the bottom of the range, and is finally brought back by adiabatic compression to the highest temperature at which it again takes in heat, and so on. An air-engine working on this cycle would ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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