Temperature
Hot or cold material can be measured by instruments. Information of two scales used to measure temperature; Centigrade and Fahrenheit.
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In a water-heating system cool water is fed to the bottom of a boiler and rises by convection and it is heated. From the top of the boiler it circulates, gradually losing its heat, and returns to the boiler for the cycle to be repeated.
Heating Systems
Heating is necessary to keep our homes warm and comfortable to live in. There are several kinds of heating systems, but they all work by a combination of radiation and convection. Radiation is the transfer of heat by heat rays. The Sun warms us by radiation, and heat comes from a coal or wood fire, or from a glowing electric heater, by radiation. Convection depends on the movement of air. Heat reaches us from a radiator when air, warmed by radiation near a hot radiator, circulates through the room.
Local heating, such as open fires in fireplaces, heaters burning kerosene or gas or small electric fires, are used to warm single rooms in many countries. Central heating, which supplies heat to all parts of a house or office from a single burner or other heat source, is common in the United States. Many central heating systems consist of radiators placed around the house, connected together by thin pipes. Hot water or steam from a boiler burning oil, coal, coke or gas is pumped through the radiators. In some central heating systems, warm air heated by a burner is pumped and circulated around the house. Other central heating systems have heating elements built into the floor or ceiling. Central heating systems are regulated by thermostats that switch the heating on when it is cold, and off when it is warm.
