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The heat pipe

Peter Main

Heat pipes transfer heat much more rapidly than a copper bar and have uses in spacecraft and laptop computers. They can even be found on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and the Qinghai–Tibet railway — the highest railway in the world

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Heat conduction alone is not sufficient to cool a powerful desktop computer. A heat pipe, which uses the latent heat of vaporisation of a working fluid, is much more effective.

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