thermoelectric
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Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
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Current interplanetary spacecraft power systems (such as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs)) and solar arrays are incapable of producing that much power.
A special case of thermocouple wire is known as "extension grade", designed to carry the thermoelectric circuit over a longer distance.
Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, System No. 71, Volume 7a, transuranics, Part A2, p. 289 Therefore, curium can be used in its common oxide form in radioisotope thermoelectric generators like those in spacecraft.
EMCCD cameras indispensably need a cooling system using either thermoelectric cooling or liquid nitrogen to cool the chip down to temperatures in the range of convert.
Hydroelectric plants generate some 92.5 percent of domestically consumed electricity, and three commercial thermoelectric plants are in operation.
Its electric power was supplied by four radioisotope thermoelectric generators that provided a combined 155 watts at launch.