capacity of a material to conduct heat
Thermal conductivity is how well a material can transfer heat from one part to another. It matters because it determines how quickly heat spreads through materials, which is important for applications like insulation, cooking, electronics cooling, and countless other everyday situations.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
~40 min read
The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat. It is commonly denoted by
k
via PubMed
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).