Thermal conductivity experiment

[Niev]

Experiment to compare materials thermal conductivity.

Tested materials are placed under of cell with hot water (96.9 degrees)

...and after of half of cycle

Highest conductivity: Gold tile

Lowest conductivity: Abyssalite and Insulated tiles

[donutman07]

no tungsten metal tile or tubes?

what material was the insulated tile made out of?

I suggest neutronium borders, but probably wont matter at such low temperature

to stress test the insulated tile vs abyssalite tile you should try putting a much warmer material above it, like say magma at 1500C.  Because of clipping in the temperature testing, it looks like no heat was transferred to the tiles at all, but they will absorb some at higher temperature difference (it might require even higher than 1500C though, could always do molten copper too)

[Niev]

It is impossible to create tile from tungsten. Tubes behave as other highly reactive tubes, takes full temperature momentally.

It was insulated tile from sandstone.

Insulated tiles test:

Abyssalite tile and abyssalite insulated tile shown equal results in magma.

[donutman07]

4 minutes ago, Niev said:

Abyssalite tile and abyssalite insulated tile shown equal results in magma.

we must go hotter! 1000kg of molten gold at 3100K

and then even hotter! 1000kg tungsten gas at 6444C (for some reason 10000k turned into 6444C, might be a cap):

there we go.  If you want to protect your base from super heated tungsten gas, insulated abyssalite tiles are what you need.

[GreatGameDota]

42 minutes ago, donutman07 said:

 

It is impossible to create tile from tungsten.

 

Isn't tungsten refined wolframite? You can make tungsten metal tiles.

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

Actually, it works as follow

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• an insulation factor noted f (dimensionless, varies between 0 (total insulation) and 255 (no insulation). Actually, this value is always 255, excepted insulated tiles which have 2.
• a thermal conductivity noted k (the value displayed in W/m/K in the game)
• the insulated conductivity noted k' is derived from (gasp) the insulation factor and the thermal conductivity using the following formula: k' = k * (f/255)²
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• Surface-Area multipliers for interacting with each of the three states gas/liquid/solid. As a rule of thumb, liquids have a multiplier of 25 for interacting with other liquids, and gas also have a multiplier of 25 for interacting with solids. All other multipliers have a value of 1. Let's note them S for now.
• the thermal energy, noted Q
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• ΔQ = Δt * min(k'1, k'2) * (T2 - T1) * (S1[type of cell 2] * S2[type of cell 1]

 

• a mass noted m (displayed in kg)
• a specific heat capacity noted c (the value displayed in J/g/K in the game)
• the heat capacity, noted C is derived from mass and specific heat using the following formula: C = c * m
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• ΔT=ΔQ' / C

For more details

 

Gold has much lower thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity than plastic(60 vs 913 & 0.129 vs 1.92). Therefore gold tile absorbs less heat than plastic but rises temperature more quickly. That's why the temperature of gold tile has a larger change than plastic tile but contrary to the water temperatures.

Sadly tempshift plate can't be made by plastic.

[eggsvbacon]

@R9MX4

...and yet, temp shift plates can be made of dirt and everything under the sun.

Makes very little sense, imo.

@Niev

So what's the cheapest non-insulated tile that one can use to keep the heat out early on? If I understand this chart correctly, granite and sandstone?

Thanks

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

9 hours ago, eggsvbacon said:

cheapest non-insulated tile that one can use to keep the heat out early on

Material with lower thermal conductivity is better.

GOD<--  obsidian = igneous rock = sedimentary rock > sandstone > granite -->BAD

 

The most essential is the temperature change of gas.