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vortex tube

a device that separates compressed gas by utilizing the phenomenon of vortex flow in the tube into hot and cold streams
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vortex tube

Summary

vortex tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • vortex tube is credited with the discovery of Georges Joseph Ranque[2].
  • vortex tube's Commons category is recorded as Ranque-Hilsch vortex tubes[3].
  • vortex tube's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03vb18[4].
  • vortex tube's studied by is recorded as thermodynamics[5].
  • vortex tube's Quora topic ID is recorded as Vortex-Tube[6].
  • vortex tube's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 200902532[7].
  • vortex tube's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C200902532[8].

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Works and Contributions

vortex tube is credited with the discovery of Georges Joseph Ranque[2].

Why It Matters

vortex tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

thermodynamics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_vortex-tube_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{vortex tube}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/vortex-tube}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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