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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hot wire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to electrical work, indicating a wire that carries a current and is potentially dangerous to touch.
Example: "Be careful when working on the circuit; the hot wire can cause serious electric shock."
Alternatives: "live wire" or "energized wire".
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I'd seen that split-second surprise in his face and it had cut me like a hot wire.
On the laboratory scale, extremely pure titanium can be made by vaporizing the tetraiodide, TiI4, in very pure form and decomposing it on a hot wire in vacuum.
It all felt limiting, in comparison to what could be achieved in half the time with polystyrene foam and a hot wire, the staple of most architecture practices; or with digital software and a 3D printer.
You're doing something that's essentially a hot wire act.
A hot wire was inserted into the center of the chamber.
The application of a hot wire enabled the independent adjustment of the deposition and dilution rates.
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a Hot-wire method.
The particular application discussed is a hot-wire probe.
A hot-wire anemometry system was applied for measurements of mean velocity and velocity fluctuations.
The particular application in this paper is the sensing wire of a hot-wire probe.
Turbulence measurements were conducted using a hot-wire anemometer installed in the high-pressure chamber.
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