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Definition of Endothermic

1. Adjective. (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat.

Definition of Endothermic

1. a. Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat; formed by such a reaction; as, an endothermic substance; -- opposed to exothermic.

Definition of Endothermic

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Of a chemical reaction that absorbs heat energy from its surroundings. ¹

2. Adjective. (zoology) Of an animal whose body temperature is regulated by internal factors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Endothermic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Endothermic

1. Describes a chemical reaction that absorbs or requires energy (usually in the form of heat). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endothermic

Literary usage of Endothermic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1884)
"A distinction is generally drawn between so-called exothermic and endothermic changes ; the former are accompanied by evolution, the latter by absorption of ..."

2. Thermodynamics and Chemistry: A Non-mathematical Treatise for Chemists and by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1903)
"Nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, acetylene are endothermic in all circumstances. 36. Heats of formation at constant pressure and at constant volume. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"... an endothermic Mineral." By WILLIAM RAMSAY, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D., FRS, and MOKRIS W. TRAVERS, B.Sc. IV. " On the Modification of the Spectra of Iron and ..."

4. A Treatise on Producer-gas and Gas-producers by Samuel S. Wyer (1906)
"endothermic reaction. Any chemical change that absorbs heat is called endothermic, and is indicated by the sign—. (See § 117. ..."

5. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"Exothermic and endothermic Reactions. — All chemical reactions are of two kinds in their relation to energy. One kind of reaction liberates or expends ..."

6. Memoirs and Proceedings (1892)
"On the Decomposition by shock of endothermic Compounds. By JA Harker, Dalton Chemical Scholar, and HB Dixon, FRS, Professor of Chemistry in the Owens ..."

7. Explosives: A Synoptic and Critical Treatment of the Literature of the by Heinrich Brunswig (1912)
"... of other products of explosions, such as CO, CC>2 and H2O, especially under pressures which approach 1000 atmospheres. 133. The fact that endothermic ..."

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