Timing, exact rates and weather conditions are extremely important. A good option is to hire a professional lawn care specialist to apply chemicals. Spot spraying with a selective broadleaf herbicide (weed killer for lawns) is a good way to kill your weeds without damaging your lawn. I spot spray (as opposed to applying herbicides to the entire lawn) most of the lawns that I manage because it uses less chemicals and is the responsible approach to take.
Conduction is heat transfer by means of molecular agitation within a material without any motion of the material as a whole. If one end of a metal rod is at a higher temperature, then energy will be transferred down the rod toward the colder end because the higher speed particles will collide with the slower ones with a net transfer of energy to the slower ones.
Also found in: Acronyms, Wikipedia. Heat transfer. Heat, a form of kinetic energy, is transferred in three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation. Heat transfer (also called thermal transfer) can occur only if a temperature difference exists, and then only in the direction of decreasing temperature. Beyond this, the mechanisms and laws governing each of these ways are quite different. See Conduction (heat), Convection (heat), Heat radiation. By utilizing a knowledge of the principles governing the three methods of heat transfer and by a proper selection and fabrication of materials, the designer attempts to obtain the required heat flow.