Meanings
nouncalorimetry (countable and uncountable, plural calorimetries)
plural calorimetries
- countableuncountablenatural sciencesThe science of measuring the heat absorbed or evolved during the course of a chemical reaction or change of state.
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.
2011, Gautam R. Desiraju, Jagadese J. Vittal, Arunachalam Ramanan, Crystal Engineering, page 112
Origin
- Latincalor“warmth, heat”
- Englishcalorimetry
From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -metry.
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Catalan calorimetria
- calorimetriathe scientific discipline
Czech kalorimetrie
- kalorimetriethe scientific discipline
Finnish kalorimetria
- kalorimetriathe scientific discipline
French calorimétrie
- calorimétriethe scientific discipline
German Kalorimetrie
- Kalorimetriethe scientific discipline
Hungarian kalorimetria
- kalorimetriathe scientific discipline
Indonesian kalorimetri
- kalorimetrithe scientific discipline
Irish calraiméadracht
- calraiméadrachtthe scientific discipline
Italian calorimetria
- calorimetriathe scientific discipline
Romanian calorimetrie
- calorimetriethe scientific discipline
Spanish calorimetría
- calorimetríathe scientific discipline
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