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Subject: Is there kind of like a magnetocaloric effect in water dielectric?

Date: Mon Nov 30 18:00:28 1998
Posted by George J. Bugh
Grade level: nonaligned
School: n/a
City: Fort Worth State/Province: TX
Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 912470428.Ch
Message:

If distilled water is used as a dielectric between capacitive 
plates coated with teflon tape then; is work done on the water 
by an external electric circuit to turn its molecules into 
alignment with the electric field from an electric potential on 
the plates? Does this cause heat in the water? or does the water 
get cooler due to a decrease in entropy since its molecules 
become less random in the electric field? Where does the energy 
come from to turn the molecules or should I say, where does the 
energy go when the molecules lose entropy from turning into 
alignment with the plates?


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