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Rare card · Science
Heat pump, a Rare card
A heat pump is a device that uses mechanical or thermal energy to transfer heat from one space to another.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Heat pump quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Heat pump card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ heat pump uses electric power to transfer heat by compression.
Answer
mechanical. The mechanical heat pump uses electric power to transfer heat by compression. From the Heat pump article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ozone. Ozone 91 · Cremation 85 · Heat pump 82 · Ignaz Semmelweis 79 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The mechanical heat pump uses electric power to transfer heat by compression.
- Specifically, it transfers thermal energy by means of a heat pump and refrigeration cycle, cooling one space and warming the other.
- In winter, a heat pump can move heat from the cool outdoors to warm a house, in summer, it may also be designed to move heat from the house to the warmer outdoors, functioning in the same manner as an air conditioner.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Heat pump article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Heat pump
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Heat pump in the power ranking, all domains together.
- KvassRare · Society · ATK 78 DEF 92
- OzoneRare · Science · ATK 91 DEF 79
- CremationRare · Nature · ATK 85 DEF 85
- HydrazineRare · Science · ATK 78 DEF 92
- Marshall McLuhanRare · History · ATK 86 DEF 84
- Max BlumenthalRare · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 85
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Heat pump (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wikideas1, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
