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Spelling: [nairnst, nurnst; German nernst]
IPA: /nɛərnst, nɜrnst; German nɛrnst/

Nernst is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in Nernst (ennrst).

Definitions for Nernst

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  1. Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.

Examples for Nernst

He has trained in his laboratory Arrhenius, Nernst, and many others of almost equal eminence.

Nernst in his definition substitutes "unit difference of osmotic pressure" for "unit difference of concentration."

The Nernst lamp, therefore (fig. 17), consists of a slender rod of the mixed oxides attached to platinum wires by an oxide paste.

The source of light—the filament of a Nernst lamp—was moved about in a plane 120 cm.

Another type of filament lamp was developed by Nernst in 1897.

No advantage is obtained by over-running a Nernst lamp, this only shortening its life without increasing the light.

The arrangement of the larger type of Nernst lamp can be readily seen from the drawing, Fig. 52c.

All other incandescent lamps and the Nernst lamps are supplied through transformers from the 60-cycle lighting system.

A transverse difference of electric potential (Nernst effect).

This was Professor Nernst, the inventor of a well-known electric lamp and a man who had always violently hated the British.

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