0 present participle of preheat
1 to heat an oven to a particular temperature before putting food in it:
Preheating study by reflectivity measurements in laser-driven shocks.
Initially, the reflectivity decreases because of a small preheating of the target.
X-ray preheating leads to the expansion of the target rear surfaces.
Preheating of the target material gives rise to ionization and expansion before the arrival of the thermal conduction front, and reduces the peak electron density.
This may lead to preheating of the target.
In principle, we do expect that preheating effects to vanish going to sufficiently low laser intensities.
To produce degenerate plasmas in the compressed targets, fuel preheating must be avoided during the compression phase.
Preheating study of reflectivity measurement in laser driven shocks.
