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Leidenfrost

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Translation of "leidenfrost" into Russian

Leidenfrost
Noun
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Leidenfrost
The Leidenfrost effect occurs when a liquid comes in contact with a surface significantly hotter than its boiling point.
Эффект Лейденфроста возникает, когда жидкость соприкасается с поверхностью, значительно более горячей, чем ее точка кипения.

Definitions

Leidenfrost
Noun
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The phenomenon where a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly.
The Leidenfrost effect can be observed when water droplets skitter across a hot pan.
Leidenfrost
Adjective
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Relating to or exhibiting the Leidenfrost effect, especially describing a temperature or state in which a liquid levitates on its own vapour layer above a hot surface.
The water reached the Leidenfrost temperature and began to skate across the skillet.
Leidenfrost
Proper noun
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A surname, notably of Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (1715–1794), the German physician who first described the effect bearing his name.
Johann Leidenfrost published his observations in 1756.