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When the temperature of a substance changes, the energy that is stored in the intermolecular bonds between atoms changes. When the stored energy increases, so does the length of the molecular bonds. As a result, solids typically expand in response to heating and contract on cooling; this dimensional response to temperature change is expressed by its coefficient of thermal expansion. Different coefficients of thermal expansion can be defined for a substance depending on whether the expansion is measured by: linear thermal expansion, area thermal expansion, or volumetric thermal expansion. |
qudt:applicableUnit |
Show 9 values |
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qkdv:A0E0L1I0M0H-1T0D0 |
qudt:informativeReference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion#Length |
qudt:plainTextDescription |
“When the temperature of a substance changes, the energy that is stored in the intermolecular bonds between atoms changes. When the stored energy increases, so does the length of the molecular bonds. As a result, solids typically expand in response to heating and contract on cooling; this dimensional response to temperature change is expressed by its coefficient of thermal expansion. Different coefficients of thermal expansion can be defined for a substance depending on whether the expansion is measured by: linear thermal expansion, area thermal expansion, or volumetric thermal expansion.” |
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“Applicable units are those of quantitykind:LinearThermalExpansion” |
rdfs:isDefinedBy |
http://qudt.org/3.1.10/vocab/quantitykind |
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“Linear Thermal Expansion”@en |
