heat source
What generates warmth
A heat source is anything that generates or provides thermal energy.
The term appears in cooking Place the pan over your heat source, physics The sun is Earth's primary heat source, and engineering contexts.
Heat sources range from flames and electric elements to nuclear reactions and body warmth.
- radiant floorEmbedded subfloor warming system
- human bodyCorporeal self
- heating padElectric warmth for aches
- stoveKitchen heating appliance
- wood stoveTimber-fueled heating appliance
furnace · sun · kiln · boiler · gas burner · blowtorch · volcanic activity · geothermal vents · cellular respiration · friction · hot springs · magma · nuclear reactor · microwave oven · forest fires · incandescent bulb · lightning · digestion process
- heatthermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection, insulators
- fondue equipmentfondue pot, fondue fork, fondue forks, fondue set, fuel canister
- moonshinemoonshine, moonshiner, white lightning, hooch, bootleg
- thermodynamicsentropy, enthalpy, free energy, second law, thermal equilibrium
- heat transferconduction, convection, conductors, insulators, radiation
- hydronic heatingradiator, radiators, boiler, boilers, baseboard heater
thermal function
heat sourcecooling unit
Heat-removing apparatus
air conditioner · refrigerator · cooler · cooling system · chiller