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shock heating

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shock heating [′shäk ‚hēd·iŋ]
(physics)
The nonisentropic heating of a fluid which takes place when a shock wave passes through it.


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Studies have shown that most of the delivered organics would have decomposed through shock heating or aerodynamic interaction with the ambient atmosphere.
This kind of heat loss, he says, has only been seen in lunar rocks that have undergone shock heating.
A larger halo of X-ray emission, detected by ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton could be evidence of shock heating by previous collisions between galaxies in this group.
 
 
 
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