Aurochloride :: Aurochloride (n.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate..

Bachelorism :: Bachelorism (n.) Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors..

Bichloride :: Bichloride (n.) A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.

Caloric :: Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat..

Caloric :: Caloric (a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.

Caloricity :: Caloricity (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat..

Caloriduct :: Caloriduct (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

Calorie :: Calorie (n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0� to 1�. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound..

Calorifacient :: Calorifacient (a.) See Calorificient.

Calorifere :: Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes..

Calorifiant :: Calorifiant (a.) See Calorificient.

Calorific :: Calorific (a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.

Calorification :: Calorification (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat..

Calorificient :: Calorificient (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation..

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc..

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.

Calorimetric :: Calorimetric (a.) Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.

Calorimetry :: Calorimetry (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

Calorimotor :: Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects..

Chloric :: Chloric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3..

Chloridate :: Chloridate (v. t.) To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography..

Chloride :: Chloride (n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt)..

Chloridic :: Chloridic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.

Chloridize :: Chloridize (v. t.) See Chloridate.

Chlorimetry :: Chlorimetry (n.) See Chlorometry.

Chlorinate :: Chlorinate (v. t.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine..

Chlorinated :: Chlorinated (imp. & p. p.) of Chlorinat.

Chlorinating :: Chlorinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chlorinat.

Chlorination :: Chlorination (n.) The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas..

Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..

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