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Unread 03-16-2005, 05:01 PM   #4
Cathar
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It's a heat-pipe. Heat-pipes since the dawn of when they were invented have worked by the phase-change principle.

A common marketing practise for many companies is to single out an element of an otherwise well-known, quite old and commonly used piece of technology, express it with a flashy term that really is describing in a less commonly understood way how the device works, and claim innovation and something special.
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