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Caloric

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.

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Heat 66% connected

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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Thermal 92% connected

Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.

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Thermic 92% connected

Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.

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Agent noun · 78% connection

An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a p…

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Biostatics noun · 78% connection

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

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Blaze noun · 78% connection

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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Calorimeter noun · 78% connection

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, ch…

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Calx noun · 78% connection

The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be,…

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Catalysis noun · 78% connection

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contac…

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Combustion noun · 78% connection

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.

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Deflagrate verb · 78% connection

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagra…

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Deflagration noun · 78% connection

combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat

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Fire noun · 78% connection

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Flame noun · 78% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Flaming noun · 78% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Furnace noun · 78% connection

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, fo…

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Hypothesis noun · 78% connection

a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenome…

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Language noun · 78% connection

a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of soc…

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Metaphysics noun · 78% connection

Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology.

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Neology noun · 78% connection

The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarka…

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Nomenclator noun · 78% connection

One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of techni…

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