calorimetry

English

Etymology

From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -metry.

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Noun

calorimetry (countable and uncountable, plural calorimetries)

1. (physics) The science of measuring the heat absorbed or evolved during the course of a chemical reaction or change of state.
   • 2011, Gautam R. Desiraju, ‎Jagadese J. Vittal, ‎Arunachalam Ramanan, Crystal Engineering, page 112:

     Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.

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Derived terms

• adsorption calorimetry
• biocalorimetry
• differential scanning calorimetry
• magnetocalorimetry
• microcalorimetry
• nanocalorimetry

Related terms

• calorimeter
• calorimetric

Translations

the scientific discipline

• Asturian: calorimetría f
• Catalan: calorimetria f
• Czech: kalorimetrie f
• Finnish: kalorimetria
• French: calorimétrie (fr) f
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• German: Kalorimetrie f
• Hungarian: kalorimetria (hu)
• Irish: calraiméadracht f
• Italian: calorimetria (it) f
• Romanian: calorimetrie (ro) f
• Spanish: calorimetría f