self-cooling

Updated: May 21, 2025

Here, too, there were no seas, for the temperature was above the critical temperature of water, and only in the self-cooling bodies of these men and in the trees which similarly cooled themselves, could there be liquid. The sun of the world was another of the giant red stars, close to three hundred and fifty times the mass of our sun. It was circled by but three giant planets.

John Wood Campbell - Invaders from the Infinite

We know now that, to consider the earth first, its crust is not self-cooling, or at any rate not self-cooling only, for it is certainly self-heating.

C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby - Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles