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thermal

[thur-muhl] / ˈθɜr məl /


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For $499, which people can use HSA or FSA funds to help cover, the “radiation-free” visit includes a skin examination with visual and thermal cameras, a cardiovascular assessment, a body-composition analysis and on-site blood-testing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

When thermal runaway starts, the process can continue for days, with the potential for batteries to release toxic gases such as hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and carbon monoxide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

This raises reliability concerns, unless data centre operators and equipment manufacturers can keep within strict thermal limits.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

After McGetchin was identified, scientists used the spacecraft's thermal instrument, Diviner, to examine the surrounding region.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

There is a public campground at Liard River, from which a boardwalk leads half a mile across a marsh to a series of natural thermal pools.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

In the first, a quadrotor drone was able to observe four hovering white balls while avoiding four orange balls, all while navigating an airfield rife with randomly occurring, dangerous air currents, or thermals.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

As spectators chant and funnel into the tree-lined stadium, the day starts to warm, which is when spotted lanternflies can be found rising into the air on thermals.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023

Vultures, another raptor, are easy to spot in the early afternoon because they “get up on the thermals and fly miles and miles and miles” looking for food, he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

The clothes feature Sombreuil’s artwork — amulets, angels, demons and more — on thermals, cut-out dresses and jeans, fitting squarely in Heaven’s irreverent, cheeky universe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Ahead of them, high in the sky, circling on the hot air currents, were the night-gaunts, dozens of them, riding the thermals.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman




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