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noun
The temperature change of a real gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is forced through a valve or porous plug while kept insulated so that no heat is exchanged with the environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, thermodynamics
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History
Named after James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who discovered it in 1852.
