Kapitza resistance

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English

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Etymology

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For Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist.

Noun

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Kapitza resistance (countable and uncountable, plural Kapitza resistances)

  1. (physics) A resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.
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