The air cell increases in size during incubation at a rate that depends on temperature and humidity as moisture evaporates from the egg. The drawing shows the normal size of an egg's air cell at 7, 14, and 18 days of incubation. Size of the air cell in the egg on the 7th, 14th, and 18th day of incubation.
A specific heat capacity is the amount of energy necessary to increase the temperature of a kilogram of that substance by one kelvin. Molar heat capacity is the amount of energy necessary to raise one mole of substance by one kelvin degree. One mole of a substance is exactly 6.02x10 23 atoms or molecules of that substance.
Short for Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a network technology based on transferring data in cells or packets of a fixed size. The cell used with ATM is relatively small compared to units used with older technologies. The small, constant cell size allows ATM equipment to transmit video, audio, and computer data over the same network, and assure that no single type of data hogs the line. Some people think that ATM holds the answer to the Internet bandwidth problem, but others are skeptical. ATM creates a fixed channel, or route, between two points whenever data transfer begins. This differs from TCP/IP, in which messages are divided into packets and each packet can take a different route from source to destination.