As such, they can be considered to be "thermally naive", and were caught out by the cold snap.

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The concept uses alternating materials with varying rates of diffusion to move heat around and create a thermally invisible region.

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One feature Mr. Konkol couldn't have: an open fireplace, because the chimney would require a hole in the thermally sealed house.

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Light sweet crude is depleting quickly, and now the industry is going after heavy crude and tar sands and thermally enhanced oil.

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It is electrically and thermally conductive, is strong and is transparent.

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There will be a role for thermally treating waste.

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In fact they're beneficial because the building moves thermally more than is caused by the Jubilee Line and the movements concentrated around the cracks and, if they didn't, there'd be cracking elsewhere.

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"Thermally, they're designed for one, " he said.

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