HEAT RESERVOIR Definition & Meaning

heat reservoir

Thermodynamics.

a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.

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Because of this difference, water is a better heat reservoir than land – especially big bodies of water, like oceans.

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Even an old air raid bunker in the Wilhelmsburg district has been transformed into a so-called “energy bunker”, with a large heat reservoir.

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The oceans are a massive heat reservoir, absorbing some 90% of the warming from human-caused climate change.

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I finished the heat reservoir.

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It'll have two bulky Hab batteries, the atmospheric regulator, the oxygenator, and my homemade heat reservoir.

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