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- Heat Safety - What to do when a heat wave strikes. Heat related illnesses and symptoms. The heat index section and its effects is especially important for high risk individuals. From the National Weather Service.
- Heat-Related Illness - Tips for staying safe in warm weather, and how to recognize and care for different stages of heat injuries. Includes a glossary of related terms. From the American Red Cross.
- Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke - Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment on heat related illness. Presented by eMedicine Health.
- MEDLINEplus: Heat Illness - Resources and fact sheets for dealing with heat related illnesses.
- Fact Sheet: Extreme Heat - Ways to keep people and buildings cool during a heat wave. From the US Federal Emergence Management Agency (FEMA).
- Extreme Heat - Identifies people most at risk, explains how to stay healthy in hot weather, and lists symptoms and treatment of problems such as heat stroke, heat rash, and sunburns. From the US National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
- How to Prevent Heat-Related Illness in Children - Steps, tips and overall warnings. From eHow.com
- Dehydration - Information on dehydration and heat-related illness, presented by Survive Outdoors, Inc.
- Dead Heat - Why Don't Americans Sweat Over Heat-Wave Deaths? - Raises the question of why more attention is not paid to these preventable deaths. [Slate]
- HowStuffWorks: How Heat Stroke Works - Brief narrative explains the cause, effect and treatment of heat stroke.
Wikipedia Articles
- Heat and affinity - Over the course of over two-thousand years the theory of what specifically heat was and how this related to chemical affinity, transformed from the old four element theories of the Greeks, in which heat was a form of fire, one of the basic elements, to the Arabic alchemical principles (salt, sulphur, mercury), to the modern day conception in which heat is a form of "energy ...
- Thermal energy - In thermal physics, thermal energy is the energy portion of a system that increases with its temperature. In a loose sense, "thermal energy" is a term often used to describe the energy content of a system related to heating effects, e.g. temperature increase or decrease. In thermodynamics, thermal energy is the internal energy present in a system in a state of thermodynamic equilibrium by virtue of its temperature.Thermal energy - Britannica The term is not widely used, however, in a rigorous sense, owing to the result that the phrase "thermal (heat) energy" is counter-intuitive. That is, heat can only be defined as any spontaneous flow of energy (energy in transit) from one object to another, caused by a difference in temperature between two objects; thus, an object cannot posess "heat". This is explained by the second law ...
- 1995 Chicago heat wave - The 1995 Chicago heat wave led to approximately 600 heat-related deaths over a period of five days.
- Thermal science - Thermal science is the combined study of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. This umbrella-subject is typically designed for non-engineering students and functions to provide a general introduction to each of three core heat-related subjects.
- ISO 31-4 - ISO 31-4 is the part of international standard ISO 31 that defines names and symbols for quantities and units related to heat.