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Definition of Frigorific
1. Adjective. Causing cold; cooling or chilling.
Definition of Frigorific
1. a. Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
Definition of Frigorific
1. Adjective. causing to cool or chill ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frigorific
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Frigorific
1. Producing cold. Origin: L. Frigus, cold, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frigorific
Literary usage of Frigorific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson, Thomas Cooper (1818)
"According to them, these frigorific particles insinuate themselves like wedges
between the molecules of water, destroy their mobility, and thus convert ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Heat as Applied to the Useful Arts: For the Use of by Thomas Box (1900)
"frigorific Mixtures."—The mixture of many salts with water, snow, and acids is
productive ... Of frigorific MIXTURES for the ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION of COLD, ..."
3. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry (1823)
"Table consisting of frigorific Mixtures, composed of Ice, with chemical Salts
and Acids. ... frigorific ..."
4. A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, Depending on the Relations ...by John Leslie by John Leslie (1813)
"... will like- wise exhibit the strength of the pulses which are transmitted with
various obliquity* '--- -When all the frigorific impressions showered from ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Heat as Applied to the Useful Arts: For the Use of by Thomas Box (1876)
"The principal sources of cold are: sky radiation (41); evaporation (193) ;
dilatation of compressed air (51) ; and the use of ice and frigorific mixtures ..."
6. The elements of medical chemistry: Embracing Only Those Branches of Chemical by John Ayrton Paris (1825)
"... the manner of conducting the operation. The following table shews the results
of some of Mr. Walker's experiments on the subject of frigorific mixtures. ..."
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