Meanings
nounKapitza resistance (countable and uncountable, plural Kapitza resistances)
plural Kapitza resistances
- countableuncountablenatural sciencesA resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.
Origin
For Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist.
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