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thermal lag/time lag

Italian translation: inerzia termica

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17:47 Oct 10, 2011

English to Italian translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Sistemi di sicurezza anticendio

English term or phrase: thermal lag/time lag

Si tratta dei rivelatori di fumo in un impianto antincendio; potrebbe essere il ritardo termico?

- For sprinklers and thermal detectors, measured values of response time index (RTI) characterize the lag time between gas
temperature and sensing element temperature.
- In the absence of understanding the many processes affecting smoke detector response, smoke detectors can be approximated as low-temperature heat detectors with no thermal lag (i.e., low-RTI devices).
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Italian translation:inerzia termica

Explanation:

"'Thermal lag'" describes a material's thermal mass with respect to time. A material with high thermal mass (high heat capacity and low conductivity) will have a large thermal lag.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_lag

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