List of adiabatic concepts
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Adiabatic (from Gr. ἀ negative + διάβασις passage; transference) refers to any process that occurs without heat transfer. This concept is used in many areas of physics and engineering. Notable examples are listed below.
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[edit] Automobiles
- Engine braking, a feature of some diesel engines, uses adiabatic expansion to diminish the vehicle's forward momentum.
[edit] Meteorology
- Adiabatic lapse rate, the change in air temperature with changing height, resulting from pressure change.
[edit] Quantum chemistry
- Adiabatic invariant Born-Oppenheimer approximation
[edit] Thermodynamics
[edit] Quantum mechanics
[edit] Electronics
[edit] Carbohydrate chemistry
[edit] Extraction
[edit] References
- ^ Adiabatic Extraction process http://www.bionactis.com/index.php?page=59
