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Peltier effect
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English
Etymology
en physicist Jean C. A. Peltier Jean Charles Athanase Peltier French 1785 1845, the discoverer of the effect.
Noun
en physics A thermoelectric effect which occurs when current is passed through a thermocouple causing one side of the Peltier to heat up and the other to cool down, used in computing as a cooling process.
Related terms
en Peltier cooling
Translations
thermodynamic effect
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 珀耳帖效應 Pò'ěrtiě xiàoyìng
Finnish: fi Peltier'n ilmiö
German: de Peltiereffekt m
Italian: it effetto Peltier m
Japanese: ja ペルチェ効果 peruche-kōka
Portuguese: pt efeito Peltier m
See also
en Seebeck effect