What is "radiative"

Usage examples of "radiative".

We are looking at flaws in the radiative and convective zones, where a great deal of energy is in normal times stored.

On its way into the heart of the star, the Jovian had torn through a sensitive boundary called the tacholine: the boundary between convective and radiative zones.

So, at the tacholine, there is friction: the convective material moves over the radiative like a tremendous wind.

Energy cascaded up through the radiative zone, releasing some of the pent-up energy in that million-year storage tank into the bargain.

And, two-thirds of the way to the surface of the sun, these energies reached the tacholine: the frontier between radiative and convective zones, above which point the substance of the sun boils like water in a pan.

The flash of atomic and radiative weapons on its surface and the vicinity was bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye on Luna as a flickering light.

There had been little change for many hoursapparently the whole projectile was nearly in radiative equilibrium with the distant sun.

The air that reached him was bearable, but the hull of the torpedo must be cold enough to freeze zinc, if it had reached radiative equilibrium for this distance from the sun.

I was trying to persuade Juan to get back in the tent: the top had better reflectivity than our suits, plus radiative cooling fins on the bottom of the trailer.

Tally indicates that radiative cooling would require twenty thousand years.

Either they located themselves on the side away from the source of planetary heat, or they found places high enough for the air to be thin and the radiative heat loss to open space to be high.

I wanted to chuck it all in, to sit on that ruined beach, regardless of fires, Bombs and radiative particles: to sit and wait for the final Darkness to close about me.

Sura had been calibrating the radiative coolers, checking the hypothermia drugs.

The radiative zone was a ball of plasma which occupied eighty percent of the Sun's diameter—with the fusing core itself buried deep within—and the convective zone was a comparatively thin layer above the plasma, with the photosphere a crust at the boundary of space.

If that core were ever extinguished, then the flood of energetic photons out of the core and into the radiative and convective layers would be staunched.