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A source used in the article, Thermopedia, says

Transpiration cooling is one way of active heat protection (see Heat Protection) during which a coolant in the course of passing through the wall of a body absorbs a part of the internal energy of a body requiring cooling, and simultaneously actively affects the convective heat flux going into a body from the surrounding space.

The prose in the article, as of 31 January, said:

Transpiration cooling is a thermodynamic process where cooling is achieved by a process of moving a liquid through the wall of a body to absorb some portion of the internal energy of a body requiring cooling while simultaneously actively affecting the convective and radiative[1] heat flux going into a body from the surrounding space.

I had thought this a sufficient restating of the source to not implicate any sort of concern from copyright and too close a copy. Editor CASSIOPEIA asked me on my talk page to take another look.

So I've just taken another look and edited the article prose a bit more. So it now states (1 Feb):

Transpiration cooling is a thermodynamic process where cooling is achieved by a process of moving a liquid or a gas through the wall of a structure to absorb some portion of the heat energy from the structure while simultaneously actively reducing the convective and radiative[1] heat flux coming into the structure from the space surrounding the structure.

The field of thermodynamics often uses the term "body" for a generic physical structure that is not well specified; but here I've tried to make the prose a bit less esoteric for the global reader of Wikipedia and say "structure". Also, "internal energy" is a theormodynamic concept, but have changed it to the (perhaps) more grokable "heat energy."

Does this work better? Cheers. N2e (talk) 11:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

N2e Thank your for the the edit. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 12:07, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference trati20190123 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).