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The Carnot Cycle
Source of package openstax.thermodynamics · OpenStax University Physics, ch. 4 The Second Law of Thermodynamics, module m58406
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<term>Carnot engine</term>
<meaning id="fs-id1167584776555">Carnot heat engine, refrigerator, or heat pump that operates on a Carnot cycle</meaning>
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<term>Carnot principle</term>
<meaning id="fs-id1167584855837">principle governing the efficiency or performance of a heat device operating on a Carnot cycle: any reversible heat device working between two reservoirs must have the same efficiency or performance coefficient, greater than that of an irreversible heat device operating between the same two reservoirs</meaning>
</definition>Referencing norms: CarnotLimitFromReservoirTemperatures, EfficiencyAboveLimitIsImpossible, EfficiencyAtOrBelowLimitIsPossible
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