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diathermic
[ dahy-uh-thur-mik ]
adjective
- of or relating to diathermy.
- capable of conducting heat.
diathermic
/ ˌdaɪəˈθɜːmɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to diathermy
- able to conduct heat; passing heat freely
Word History and Origins
Origin of diathermic1
Example Sentences
Unlike fan-based heaters, radiators work by heating up a reserve of diathermic oil that transfers heat to the machine’s metal fins.
Last week Dr. Eldridge reported that, in 250 pneumonia cases to which he applied this diathermic treatment, only three resulted in death.
For an alcohol flame Knoblauch and Melloni found glass to be less transparent than for the same flame with a platinum spiral immersed in it; but Melloni afterwards showed that the result was not general — that black glass and black mica were decidedly more diathermic to the radiation from the pure alcohol flame.
It is also a subject of discussion whether rock-salt is equally diathermic to all kinds of calorific rays; the differences affirmed to exist by some investigators being ascribed by others to differences of incidence from the various sources employed.
The latter are far more diathermic than the former.
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