| 单词 |
self-heating |
| 释义 |
self-ˈheating, vbl. n. (ppl. a.) [self- 1 b, f, 4.] The action of becoming heated spontaneously or automatically. Also as ppl. a., that is designed to heat itself automatically; (of food) held in a self-heating container.
1929Chem. Abstr. XXIII. 1561 The effect..of self-heating of metals after previous chilling is attributed here to establishment of equil[ibrium] in a metastable system. 1952Koestler Arrow in Blue v. xxxii. 272 Some new ‘colossal’ project like the radioactive soap or the self-heating bricks. 1959P. Capon Amongst Those Missing 23 They found several battered cans of self-heating soup. Ibid. 24 The fuses on the self-heating cans did not burn too well. 1961Guardian 29 May 2/3 Tins of self-heating cocoa fell from their appointed places into the bilges. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. xvi. 576 As a result of self-heating effects, polonium and polonium compounds are always at temperatures markedly above their surroundings. 1981J. R. L. Anderson Death at High Latitude ix. 135, I opened three more cans of our self-heating soup, the only means we had of getting a hot drink. |

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