Seebeck
Britishnoun
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any of a set of stamps issued (1890–99) in Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, and El Salvador and named after Nicholas Frederick Seebeck, who provided them free to the respective governments
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any of the reprints issued later for personal gain by Seebeck
Example Sentences
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The combination of extremely high electrical conductivity and simultaneously a high Seebeck coefficient leads to record thermoelectric power factor values in nickel-gold alloys, which exceed those of conventional semiconductors by far.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
The ratio of the built-up thermoelectric voltage and the temperature difference defines the Seebeck coefficient, named after the German physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck, which is an important parameter for the thermoelectric performance of a material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
On the one hand, metals such as copper, silver or gold have extremely high electrical conductivity; on the other hand, their Seebeck coefficient is vanishingly small in most cases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
It is usually a thin conductive material that exploits the temperature difference between its two sides to generate electricity, known as the Seebeck effect.
From Forbes ● Jun. 8, 2010
In the year 1821 Professor Seebeck, of Berlin, discovered a third source of electricity.
From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John
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