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Calorific   Listen
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Calorific  adj.  Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sun, and from burning and heated bodies.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Calorific" Quotes from Famous Books



... by Form, against Force. To a painter, the essential character of anything is the form of it, and the philosophers cannot touch that. They come and tell you, for instance, that there is as much heat, or motion, or calorific energy (or whatever else they like to call it), in a tea-kettle as in a Gier-eagle. Very good; that is so; and it is very interesting. It requires just as much heat as will boil the kettle, to take the Gier-eagle up to his nest; ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin



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