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Carnot

1. Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) , known as the Organizer of Victory. 1753--1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793--95)
2. Nicolas Léonard Sadi . 1796--1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824).
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Under the terms of the agreement, Acerus will receive an upfront fee and regulatory milestone payments upon Carnot Laboratorios receiving marketing approval in the territory.
The purpose of this investigation is to construct an interactive visualization tool in the form of a computer program illustrating the time dependence of a nonideal Carnot engine and to evaluate this demonstration tool among university students during an introductory thermodynamics course.
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Carnot was the first to consider carefully the way in which heat and work interconvert.
Early in the 19th century, Sadi Carnot was a young engineer, not unlike my students today.
The CARNOT programme was due to start on January 1, 1998, although the Parliament feels should be reset for the beginning of 1999.
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