calorimetry

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Etymology

From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -metry.

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Noun

calorimetry (countable and uncountable, plural calorimetries)

  1. (physics) The science of measuring the heat absorbed or evolved during the course of a chemical reaction or change of state.
    • 2011, Gautam R. Desiraju, Jagadese J. Vittal, Arunachalam Ramanan, Crystal Engineering, page 112:
      Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.
  2. A wide headband that covers the ears, for wearing on cold days.

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