8 sentences with 'heating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word heating and other words derived from it.
• « The name of this way of cooking or heating food, which consists of placing the food in a vessel immersed in another vessel containing boiling water, probably comes from Mary the Jewess, the 3rd century alchemist who invented this technique. »
• « What changed was simply that Britain ran out of forests. Because of the need for wood and coal for heating, as well as wood for construction (especially shipbuilding; the British navy consumed a great deal of wood in construction and repairs), Britain was forced to import huge quantities of wood from abroad in the late 17th century. »
• « I would crawl around the house before he started crawling, to discover dangers that threatened him and were not obvious from my point of view," said the mother of an 11-month-old baby who got trapped in a heating pipe. »
• « Undoubtedly, one of the appliances that has generated most concern among researchers is the widespread "electric blanket" or heating blanket. »
• « Because of their intimate contact with the body, the electromagnetic field induced by electric heating blankets has a potentiating effect, to the point that an epidemiological study in North Carolina claims that children of mothers who have used electric blankets frequently during pregnancy are three times more likely to suffer from brain tumours and almost twice as likely to develop leukaemia than children of those who have not used these blankets. »
• « It was cold in the room because the heating was not yet turned on, and the floor was nothing but bare sheets of plywood. »
• « By Christmas, the room was finished: light blue walls, blue curtains flecked with gold, the floor laid, and the heating and electricity turned on. »
• « The Martian atmosphere is 96 per cent carbon dioxide, from which the oxygen needed to make the fuel would be extracted by introducing air into a processor and then heating it to about 1,900 degrees, breaking the bonds between the carbon and oxygen. Once the oxygen is released, it would be separated by a membrane that attracts the ionised atoms of the gas and liquefies it. It would then be stored in refrigerated tanks. »