Definition of thermalize in English:
thermalize
(British thermalise)
verb ˈθəːm(ə)lʌɪzˈTHərməˌlīz
Attain or cause to attain thermal equilibrium with the environment.
（使）热能化
with object epithermal neutrons are thermalized at depths where tumours tend to grow
Example sentencesExamples
- Radiolysis of the solvent produces thermalized electrons that can reach the reducible sites of the protein even at low temperature.
- Arp finds little or no evidence for the existence of the ‘dark matter’ which is supposed to dominate the mass content of the universe. He views the cosmic background radiation as thermalised galaxy light.
- If the cosmic microwave background is at such a uniform temperature, it should mean that the photons have been thermalized through repeated particle collisions.
- Radiation can only be so uniform if the photons have been mixed around a lot, or thermalized, through particle collisions.
- Once the electrons have thermalized, the ions are initially frozen in place because of their relatively large mass and low temperature.
Derivatives
noun
This breakup is a fast event (usually occurring during thermalization or at the beginning of the productive simulation phase) but also a rare event.
Example sentencesExamples
- The simulation consists of thermalization, equilibration, and production phases.
- The horizon size predicted by the existing Big Bang model is too small to account for the observed isotropy in the cosmic microwave background to have evolved naturally by thermalization.
- The magnitude of the observed anisotropic flow effect is sensitive to the degree of thermalization at the collision's earliest moments.
- The collisional thermalization between electrons and ions is very slow, due to the large difference in their masses, and it occurs on a millisecond timescale.