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Thermally grown oxide

A thermally grown oxide (TGO) is a thin alumina layer forming between the bond coat and top coat of a thermal barrier coating, protecting superalloys from oxidation.

Thermally induced phase separation

Thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) is a fabrication method that cools a polymer-diluent solution until it separates into two phases, leaving porous membranes and tissue-engineering scaffolds.

Thermally modified timber

Thermally modified timber (TMT), also called heat-treated wood, is wood heated to 160–240 °C without chemical preservatives, giving improved dimensional stability and decay resistance but reduced strength; used for decking and cladding.

Thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle

The thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle (TREC) is an electrochemical energy-conversion scheme that converts low-grade heat below 100 °C into electricity by charging and discharging a battery-like cell at two temperatures.

Thermally stimulated current

Thermally stimulated current (TSC) is an electrical characterization technique in which carriers trapped in semiconductor defect states are released by a temperature ramp, yielding trap depth and density.

Thermally stimulated depolarization current

Thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC), also known as TSD or TSC, is a dielectric measurement technique that records the current released when a frozen-in polarization is reheated, revealing dipoles, trapped charges, and defects.

Thermax

Thermax Limited is an Indian energy and environment engineering company headquartered in Pune, founded in 1966 as a boiler maker, with revenue of about USD 1.29 billion in 2025-26.

Therme Group

Therme Group is a private international developer and operator of large-scale urban wellbeing resorts combining thermal bathing, saunas, water slides, and art, led by founder Robert Hanea.

Thermes des Lutteurs

Thermes des Lutteurs: Gallo-Roman public bath complex at Saint-Romain-en-Gal (Rhône), France, discovered in 1991, covering about 8 hectares, part of the right-bank bath quarter of ancient Vienne; dated by archaeomagnetic analysis (Goulpeau and Savay-Guerraz, 1998).

Thermes romains de Cimiez

The Thermes romains de Cimiez (Roman baths of Cimiez) are the remains of three public bath complexes of the Roman city of Cemenelum, on the Cimiez hill in Nice, France.

Thermi, Lesbos

Thermi (Θερμή) is a prehistoric Bronze Age settlement on the east coast of Lesbos, Greece, near Mytilene. Founded around 3200 BC, it is among the earliest examples of urbanization in the Mediterranean.

Thermidorian Reaction

Thermidorian Reaction: period of the French Revolution from Robespierre's fall on 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) to the Convention's end on 26 October 1795, marked by the maximum's abolition, the White Terror, and bourgeois consolidation.

Therminol VP-1

Therminol VP-1, also sold as Dowtherm A, is a synthetic heat transfer fluid of diphenyl oxide and biphenyl made by Eastman Chemical, standard in parabolic trough solar plants.

Thermionic cooling

Thermionic cooling is a solid-state refrigeration method in which hot electrons carry heat across a potential barrier, first proposed for cooling by Gerald Mahan in 1994.

Thermionic emission

Thermionic emission, also called the Edison effect, is the ejection of electrons from a hot material surface when thermal energy overcomes the work function, the principle behind vacuum tubes.

Thermistor

A thermistor, or thermal resistor, is a temperature-sensitive semiconducting ceramic or polymer resistor that comes in NTC and PTC types and is used for measurement, inrush-current limiting, and overtemperature protection.

Thermite

Thermite, also known as the Goldschmidt process, is a mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxide that burns at over 2,200 °C to produce molten metal.

Thermite welding

Thermite welding, also called aluminothermic welding, is a fusion welding process that joins rails in the field with molten steel from an iron oxide and aluminum reaction.

Thermo Fisher KingFisher

The Thermo Fisher KingFisher is a family of benchtop instruments that automates DNA, RNA, and protein purification by moving magnetic beads rather than liquids, first launched in 1999.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a laboratory-supply and biopharmaceutical-services company making scientific instruments, reagents, and diagnostics, with over $40 billion in revenue and about 125,000 employees.

Thermo-Calc

Thermo-Calc is a commercial computational thermodynamics software package, first written at KTH in Stockholm in 1981, that calculates phase diagrams and material properties using the CALPHAD method.

Thermo-compression bonding

Thermo-compression bonding, also known as TCB, is a solid-state joining process that forms metallurgical welds using heat, pressure, and time without melting, central to 3D chip stacking and HBM assembly.

Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling

Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupling is a modeling framework that solves heat transfer, fluid flow, and mechanical deformation together in porous media, originating in nuclear waste disposal.

Thermoacidophile

Thermoacidophile: microorganism needing high temperature (typically >60°C) and low pH (<3) for growth; mostly archaea such as Sulfolobus, Acidianus, and Metallosphaera from hot springs, used in bioleaching and distinguished from simple thermophiles or acidophiles.

Thermoacoustics

Thermoacoustics is the physics of the coupling between heat and sound in a fluid near solid walls, enabling engines and refrigerators whose only moving parts are gas molecules.

Thermoanaerobacter

Thermoanaerobacter is a genus of strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacteria from geothermal environments, family Thermoanaerobacteraceae. Known for ethanol and lactate fermentation, glucose-xylose co-utilization, and the 2026 genome-based reclassification merging several species.

Thermobaric weapon

A thermobaric weapon, also known as a vacuum bomb or fuel-air explosive, uses oxygen from the surrounding air to create a high-temperature explosion with long-duration blast and heat.

Thermobarometry

Thermobarometry is the quantitative determination of the temperature and pressure at which a metamorphic or igneous rock reached chemical equilibrium, typically the thermal maximum of the rock's history.

Thermocatalytic decomposition of methane

Thermocatalytic decomposition of methane, also called catalytic methane decomposition or pyrolysis, is a process that splits methane into hydrogen and solid carbon over a catalyst, without forming carbon oxides.

Thermochemical sulfate reduction

Thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR) is the abiotic redox reaction in which sulfate is reduced to hydrogen sulfide while hydrocarbons are oxidized, souring more than 50 large gas fields worldwide.