chemothermal

English

Etymology

chemo- +‎ -thermal

Adjective

chemothermal (not comparable)

1. (physical chemistry) chemical and thermal, but especially related to heat gained or lost in a chemical reaction
   • 2015, Jayanta Dutta, “Does the chemothermal instability have any role in the fragmentation of primordial gas”, in The Astrophysical Journal‎^[1], volume 811:

     We conclude that fragmentation occurs because ${\rm {H_{2}}}$ cooling, the heating due to ${\rm {H_{2}}}$ formation and compressional heating together set a density and temperature structure in the disk that favors fragmentation, not the chemothermal instability..

Related terms

• thermochemical