Vocabulary : Caloricity to Calorimeter

Caloricity : A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Caloriduct : A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Calorie : 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 : See Calorificient.
Calorifere : An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

Calorifiant : See Calorificient.
Calorific : Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Calorification : Production of heat, esp. animal heat.
Calorificient : 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 : 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. ;; An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.

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