What does "mechanocaloric" mean?

Describing the production of heat by mechanical means, but especially the heating of liquid helium as some of it (the coldest atoms) escapes through minute pores.

Mechanocaloric

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Adjective

1
Describing the production of heat by mechanical means, but especially the heating of liquid helium as some of it (the coldest atoms) escapes through minute pores. not-comparable

Etymology

From mechano- + caloric.

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liquid helium

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