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Elements
Solar Collector
Energy
Heat
Science Labs
100
An extremely dense metal valued at more than $1400/ ounce
What is Gold?
100
Best color to absorb radiant energy
What is black?
100
Energy gained from height above the ground
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
Scale of temperatures where 37˚ would be considered normal body temperature
What is Celsius?
100
Four metals compared for the ability to conduct heat
What is the thermal conductivity bars?
200
A metal with an extraordinarily high melting point used as light bulb filaments
What is Tungsten?
200
The perfect insulator located between the two layers of glass in the collector tube
What is a vacuum?
200
Energy inside an atom
What is nuclear potential energy?
200
Process by which heat moves through a solid material like a metal.
What is conduction?
200
Orange Water representing glycol heating green water in the core of this device
What is a heat exchanger?
300
A dense liquid metal found in thermometers and fluorescent light bulbs
What is Mercury?
300
These devices are used to compare the temperatures between the water in the storage tank and the glycol to turn the pump on or off.
What is a thermostat?
300
Movement of electrons
What is electrical energy?
300
This happens when a solid, liquid or gas is heated.
What is thermal expansion
300
Square glass tube showing the movement of heated water.
What is the convection tube?
400
One of the inert gases this is commonly found inside incandescent light bulbs
What is Argon?
400
This device preserves the vacuum in the solar collector by removing gaseous impurities such as CO and CO2
What is the barium getter?
400
vibration waves through a medium
What is sound energy?
400
A measurement of the average kinetic heat energy of a substance
What is temperature?
400
Device that transmits sound energy through solid media
What is a hanger banger?
500
This Halogen gas has been released in a radioactive form from Fukushima?
What is Iodine?
500
An antifreeze liquid that brings heat from the tube collectors to the water storage tank.
What is glycol?
500
stored applied force
What is mechanical potential energy?
500
The temperature at which particles of matter almost stop moving
What is Absolute Zero?
500
An exothermic reaction causing bubbly foam and heat.
What is mixing Potassium Iodide and Hydrogen Peroxide?