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  • adjective That changes color on exposure to heat.

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Examples

  • The URI researchers began studying thermochromic pigments – those that change color at certain temperatures -- a decade ago when a cookware company sought a polymer that could be added to its products to make them change color when they were too hot to touch.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • They don't own the patent for thermochromic barcode.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • According to Lucht, other thermochromic indicators are commercially available, but they are expensive and they lack the archival feature required by regulatory agencies to track and trace products on a global scale.

    SIRA Technologies Food Sentinel System Thermal Barcode for Packaging 2009

  • The URI researchers began studying thermochromic pigments – those that change color at certain temperatures -- a decade ago when a cookware company sought a polymer that could be added to its products to make them change color when they were too hot to touch.

    5 posts from March 2009 2009

  • According to Lucht, other thermochromic indicators are commercially available, but they are expensive and they lack the archival feature required by regulatory agencies to track and trace products on a global scale.

    5 posts from March 2009 2009

  • After cooking begins, an invisible, temperature-sensitive thermochromic print appears in black to indicate when an egg is soft, medium or hard-boiled.

    Going for the Perfect Hard Boiled Egg | Impact Lab 2006

  • She recently produced a decorative fabric woven with heating electrodes and thermochromic ink, which changes from black to pink and back to black again according to the room's temperature.

    Wearing Wires 2007

  • Pleotint's patented technology is a lightly tinted thermochromic interlayer that warms up and darkens in direct sunlight, but clears in indirect sunlight to allow light to pass into a building.

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  • Pleotint produces the thermochromic self-tinting interlayer by extrusion in its Jenison, Mich., facility.

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  • Since 2006 Solartwin have been working on small prototype "thermal step change" thermochromic solar heater collectors which cannot boil.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Depending on the type of external stimuli applied to bring about the reversible color change, the chromogenic materials are further subclassified as photochromic (light activated), electrochromic (electric field activated), thermochromic (heat activated), gasochromic (gas exposure activated), piezochromic (pressure activated), magnetochromic (magnetic field activated) and more [1].

    Chromogenics - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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