refrigerantadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/,

/rᵻˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rn̩t/, U.S.

/rəˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/,

/riˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/

Forms: 1500s refrigerante, 1600s– refrigerant, 1700s refrigerent.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French refrigerant; Latin refrīgerant-, refrīgerāns, refrīgerāre.

Etymology: Either < Middle French refrigerant, French réfrigérant (second half of the 15th cent.), use as adjective of present participle of réfrigérer refrigerate v., or < classical Latin refrīgerant-, refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerāre refrigerate v. Compare Spanish refrigerante, adjective (first half of the 16th cent.) and noun (17th cent.), Portuguese refrigerante, noun (1668) and adjective (1720), Italian refrigerante, adjective (1583).

A. adj.

a. Medicine. Originally: that reduces the temperature of the body or a part of the body; that tends to allay heat or fever. In later use: that chills or freezes part of the body, esp. to produce anaesthesia. Cf. sense B. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > cooling treatment > [adjective]

refrigerativec1475

refrigerating1583

refrigerant1599

cool1614

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 324/2 And if you applye theron a refrigerante Playster [Ger. Kuelpflaster] cut then therin a hole.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §961 There be divers Sorts of Bracelets fit to Comfort the Spirits: And they be of three Intentions: Refrigerant, Corroborant, and Aperient.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 392 'Tis known to have a greater Virtue, as the Endive and Succory, to be refrigerant.

1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 203 Every morning,..a portion of the refrigerant powder is given.

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 406 I..sent a cathartic with a refrigerant lotion.

1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 163 In fevers, lemonade often affords a very refreshing and useful refrigerant drink.

1921 A. E. Smith Block Anesthesia v. 44 Refrigerant analgesics are those substances which cause a rapid abstraction of heat from the tissues, thereby producing diminished sensation, and their prolonged application produces local anesthesia.

1955 Lancet 10 Sept. 547/1 Intermittent application to the skin of an ice-cube for a few minutes before the injection is efficacious, but a refrigerant spray of ethyl chloride..is more reliable.

1977 Clinics in Plastic Surg. 4 283 Dermabrasion utilizing wire brushes and Fluro-Ethyl refrigerant anesthesia is an effective way of ameliorating a variety of epidermal and dermal defects.

2007 Jrnl. Drugs in Dermatol. (Nexis) 6 801 The combination of regional nerve block anesthesia, refrigerant spray cryoanesthesia, and local infiltration anesthesia is a safe, efficient, and effective technique for full-face dermabrasion.

b. Of, relating to, or employed in the production of temperatures near or below the freezing point of water; of the nature of or employing a refrigerant (sense B. 3).

ΚΠ

1876 U.S. Patent 177,845 1/2 E is the hollow base, which is provided internally with partitions, preferably arranged to cause the refrigerant agent to travel in a serpentine path.

1934 Michigan Law Rev. 32 448 Refrigerant gases are new and strange, and reliable scientific information on their effects is singularly unavailable.

1943 Resistance Welding Wrought Aluminium Alloys (Aluminium Federation Information Bull. No. 6) 24 Recently there has been a further tendency to increase the performance of electrodes by employing refrigerant cooling, thus maintaining a low temperature at the welding face.

1961 N. C. Breddy Introd. Refrigeration vi. 45 Solid carbon dioxide or dry ice as it is commonly known is a very useful refrigerant agent.

1995 D. M. P. Mingos Essent. Inorg. Chem. 1 (1997) 49 The high volatility and stability of covalent fluorides are important..as anaesthetics and refrigerant gases (CFCs).

†2. Cool or cold but having a reviving or warming effect. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]

cooling?c1425

comfortablec1440

refreshing1534

rousing1576

vegetant1576

reviving1579

refriscative1582

refrigerating1583

cordial1584

airy1591

freshing1591

animating1595

fertile1597

recreating1600

refective1611

refreshfula1614

comforting1623

refrigerant1626

erecting1654

cordialine1674

refocillating1675

corroboratinga1680

refectory1693

invigorating1694

restoring1697

freshful1734

enlivening1746–7

livelya1754

tonic1756

stimulatory1758

vivifying1768

energizing1786

stimulative1791

refreshening1807

vitalizing1813

stimulating1827

recuperative1843

invigorative1860

innerving1868

breezy1870

tonicizing1890

reparatory1893

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §788 Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat, and resort to Things that are Refrigerant with an inward Warmth and Vertue of Cherishing.

3. Chiefly literary. Cooling, producing coolness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool

chilling?a1400

cooling?c1425

infrigidative?1541

refrigerating1583

frigefying1599

refrigerative1603

infrigidating1650

frigefactive1651

algifical1656

frigorifical1656

frigidative1659

frigorific1668

refrigeratory1676

algific1708

refrigerant1766

air-cooling1832

frigorifying1851

1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius v. 339 In the recess of some refrigerant cave.

1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 383 The rays Fall mild, refrigerant.

a1876 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) I. 269 Nymphs, hederigerant, wine that's refrigerant, These are the joy of the poets and gods.

1993 Canoe Mar. 39/3 Overhead, swallows yawed about on updrafts and bald eagles..swooped low through refrigerant shadows to appraise us.

B. n.

a. Medicine. An agent used to reduce the temperature of the body or a part of the body, esp. in inflammation or fever. In later use: esp. a topical agent used to chill or freeze tissue in anaesthesia or cryosurgery.In later use there is some overlap with sense B. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > [noun] > cooling medicine

cooler1558

refrigerant1665

psyctic1846

1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi cii. 10 Refrigerants and Repercussives, which drive the Gowt from one Foot to the other, or into the Hand, and other Parts.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 277 If the tumour be large, feel pappy and increase, notwithstanding your application of refrigerants, you may suspect [etc.].

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 290 In what lonely vale Of balmy med'cine's various field, aspires The blest refrigerent?

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 519 The injury produced..by an injudicious use of evacuants and refrigerants.

1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 15 In a dilute form, [it is used] as a refrigerant, tonic, and astringent.

1908 Public Health 21 273/1 Refrigerants in the way of grapes and oranges are comforting, and should be allowed.

1936 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 67 205 Refrigerants or styptics are prescribed to stop the vomiting of blood if it occurs without fever in the patient.

1959 Lancet 14 Feb. 375/1 The refrigerant ‘Arcton’, used as local anæsthetic, could easily get into an unprotected eye.

1997 Australasian Jrnl. Dermatol. 38 71 Dimethylether/propane is an organic substance used as a refrigerant in a new cryodelivery system marketed for the treatment of warts.

†b. figurative. A means of cooling passion, ardour, etc. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxii. 191 This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 397 It is a consideration, Sir Poet, which may serve as a refrigerant for their ardour.

1863 Times 26 June 7/2 The second refrigerant of their zeal..was the depreciation of currency..and the simultaneous rise in the price of food and all the necessaries of life.

c. In extended use: a means of cooling a person, etc., esp. a cooling or refreshing drink. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > cooling drink

refrigerant1826

mug1829

febrifuge1860

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun]

cooler?1578

infrigidative1599

refrigerator1611

refrigeratory1650

chiller1798

refrigerant1826

algefacient1998

1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 323 We read of Saints who resorted to such refrigerants as the ice bath and the bed of snow.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxx Discussing by way of refrigerant our eighth tumbler of whisky-punch.

1869 O. W. Holmes Cinders from Ashes in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 245 The saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.

1993 W. G. Ryan tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legend (1995) II. 283 He heard a human voice coming from the ice... I am a soul punished in this refrigerant for my sins.

†2. Chemistry. A cooling vessel placed at the head of a still; cf. refrigeratory n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > vessel of

alembicc1405

retort1527

bagpipe1558

cornute1605

refrigeratory1605

campane1662

cornue1672

refrigerant1678

culb1683

vesica1683

blind-head1743

ambix1781

refrigerator1798

still-tub1826

wash-cistern1853

wash-warmer1900

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. i. ii. 5 But when you distill any considerable quantity, you must make use of a Refrigerant,..or of Vessels of Copper Tinn'd within, cover'd with their Moors head, and furnish'd with their Serpentine, which passes along a Vessel fill'd with cold water.

1716 ‘Colin Clout’ Mem. Fairy Land 30 I find the Air of these enchanted Groves, rarifies your Spirits very fast. Without the Refrigerant of a cool Fancy, they'll disorder the Head, into which the Spirits rise, by Heat to be distill'd into their proper Recipients.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Distilling The Parts of the Matters distill'd are raised up in the Form of Vapours,..and being sometimes help'd by a Refrigerant or Cooler, fall Drop by Drop into the Recipient.

1800 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller vii. 43 Alembics being never thoroughly secure on this kind of furnaces, a hook should be fastened to the refrigerant for fixing it to the wall.

1838 J. J. Griffin Chem. Recreations (ed. 8) i. 189 It is necessary to be careful..to keep the refrigerant supplied with cold water.

3. A substance used to produce or sustain a temperature near or below the freezing point of water. In later use chiefly: spec. a fluid, typically a readily liquefiable gas, used in a refrigerator (or dehumidifier) to transfer heat to the evaporating coils.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > freezing agent

refrigerant1843

1843 J. F. Daniell Introd. Study Chem. Philos. (ed. 2) 162 A jet of liquid carbonic acid directed upon the bulb of a spirit thermometer will sink it to 130° below 0: but it does not readily act as a refrigerant to other bodies because it cannot easily be brought into actual contact with them.

1868 Sci. Amer. 19 Aug. 126/1 The water from the melting ice shall accumulate in the trough, and prevent the circulation of air through the refrigerant contained in said pocket.

1885 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1883–4 9 88 Boiling oxygen has been used as a refrigerant.

1901 Daily News 4 Mar. 7/4 The refrigerant is to be carbonic anhydride, or champagne gas.

1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 319/1 In the refrigerating cycle, the refrigerant is made to pass into the evaporating coils so as to enable heat to be absorbed from the commodity to be cooled.

1970 Times 16 June 2/7 The refrigerant takes heat from the water which in turn produces ice crystals and concentrates unwanted solids and salts into a brine slurry.

2001 J. H. Holloway in R. Catlow & S. Greenfield Cosmic Rays 90 The infamous CFCs..were first created as non-toxic, non-flammable refrigerants to replace SO₂.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	refrigerant
释义	refrigerantadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/, /rᵻˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rn̩t/, U.S. /rəˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/, /riˈfrɪdʒ(ə)rənt/ Forms: 1500s refrigerante, 1600s– refrigerant, 1700s refrigerent. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French refrigerant; Latin refrīgerant-, refrīgerāns, refrīgerāre. Etymology: Either < Middle French refrigerant, French réfrigérant (second half of the 15th cent.), use as adjective of present participle of réfrigérer refrigerate v., or < classical Latin refrīgerant-, refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerāre refrigerate v. Compare Spanish refrigerante, adjective (first half of the 16th cent.) and noun (17th cent.), Portuguese refrigerante, noun (1668) and adjective (1720), Italian refrigerante, adjective (1583). A. adj. 1. a. Medicine. Originally: that reduces the temperature of the body or a part of the body; that tends to allay heat or fever. In later use: that chills or freezes part of the body, esp. to produce anaesthesia. Cf. sense B. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > cooling treatment > [adjective] refrigerativec1475 refrigerating1583 refrigerant1599 cool1614 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 324/2 And if you applye theron a refrigerante Playster [Ger. Kuelpflaster] cut then therin a hole. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §961 There be divers Sorts of Bracelets fit to Comfort the Spirits: And they be of three Intentions: Refrigerant, Corroborant, and Aperient. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 392 'Tis known to have a greater Virtue, as the Endive and Succory, to be refrigerant. 1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 203 Every morning,..a portion of the refrigerant powder is given. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 406 I..sent a cathartic with a refrigerant lotion. 1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 163 In fevers, lemonade often affords a very refreshing and useful refrigerant drink. 1921 A. E. Smith Block Anesthesia v. 44 Refrigerant analgesics are those substances which cause a rapid abstraction of heat from the tissues, thereby producing diminished sensation, and their prolonged application produces local anesthesia. 1955 Lancet 10 Sept. 547/1 Intermittent application to the skin of an ice-cube for a few minutes before the injection is efficacious, but a refrigerant spray of ethyl chloride..is more reliable. 1977 Clinics in Plastic Surg. 4 283 Dermabrasion utilizing wire brushes and Fluro-Ethyl refrigerant anesthesia is an effective way of ameliorating a variety of epidermal and dermal defects. 2007 Jrnl. Drugs in Dermatol. (Nexis) 6 801 The combination of regional nerve block anesthesia, refrigerant spray cryoanesthesia, and local infiltration anesthesia is a safe, efficient, and effective technique for full-face dermabrasion. b. Of, relating to, or employed in the production of temperatures near or below the freezing point of water; of the nature of or employing a refrigerant (sense B. 3). ΚΠ 1876 U.S. Patent 177,845 1/2 E is the hollow base, which is provided internally with partitions, preferably arranged to cause the refrigerant agent to travel in a serpentine path. 1934 Michigan Law Rev. 32 448 Refrigerant gases are new and strange, and reliable scientific information on their effects is singularly unavailable. 1943 Resistance Welding Wrought Aluminium Alloys (Aluminium Federation Information Bull. No. 6) 24 Recently there has been a further tendency to increase the performance of electrodes by employing refrigerant cooling, thus maintaining a low temperature at the welding face. 1961 N. C. Breddy Introd. Refrigeration vi. 45 Solid carbon dioxide or dry ice as it is commonly known is a very useful refrigerant agent. 1995 D. M. P. Mingos Essent. Inorg. Chem. 1 (1997) 49 The high volatility and stability of covalent fluorides are important..as anaesthetics and refrigerant gases (CFCs). †2. Cool or cold but having a reviving or warming effect. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] cooling?c1425 comfortablec1440 refreshing1534 rousing1576 vegetant1576 reviving1579 refriscative1582 refrigerating1583 cordial1584 airy1591 freshing1591 animating1595 fertile1597 recreating1600 refective1611 refreshfula1614 comforting1623 refrigerant1626 erecting1654 cordialine1674 refocillating1675 corroboratinga1680 refectory1693 invigorating1694 restoring1697 freshful1734 enlivening1746–7 livelya1754 tonic1756 stimulatory1758 vivifying1768 energizing1786 stimulative1791 refreshening1807 vitalizing1813 stimulating1827 recuperative1843 invigorative1860 innerving1868 breezy1870 tonicizing1890 reparatory1893 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §788 Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat, and resort to Things that are Refrigerant with an inward Warmth and Vertue of Cherishing. 3. Chiefly literary. Cooling, producing coolness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool chilling?a1400 cooling?c1425 infrigidative?1541 refrigerating1583 frigefying1599 refrigerative1603 infrigidating1650 frigefactive1651 algifical1656 frigorifical1656 frigidative1659 frigorific1668 refrigeratory1676 algific1708 refrigerant1766 air-cooling1832 frigorifying1851 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius v. 339 In the recess of some refrigerant cave. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 383 The rays Fall mild, refrigerant. a1876 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) I. 269 Nymphs, hederigerant, wine that's refrigerant, These are the joy of the poets and gods. 1993 Canoe Mar. 39/3 Overhead, swallows yawed about on updrafts and bald eagles..swooped low through refrigerant shadows to appraise us. B. n. 1. a. Medicine. An agent used to reduce the temperature of the body or a part of the body, esp. in inflammation or fever. In later use: esp. a topical agent used to chill or freeze tissue in anaesthesia or cryosurgery.In later use there is some overlap with sense B. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > [noun] > cooling medicine cooler1558 refrigerant1665 psyctic1846 1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi cii. 10 Refrigerants and Repercussives, which drive the Gowt from one Foot to the other, or into the Hand, and other Parts. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 277 If the tumour be large, feel pappy and increase, notwithstanding your application of refrigerants, you may suspect [etc.]. a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 290 In what lonely vale Of balmy med'cine's various field, aspires The blest refrigerent? 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 519 The injury produced..by an injudicious use of evacuants and refrigerants. 1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 15 In a dilute form, [it is used] as a refrigerant, tonic, and astringent. 1908 Public Health 21 273/1 Refrigerants in the way of grapes and oranges are comforting, and should be allowed. 1936 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 67 205 Refrigerants or styptics are prescribed to stop the vomiting of blood if it occurs without fever in the patient. 1959 Lancet 14 Feb. 375/1 The refrigerant ‘Arcton’, used as local anæsthetic, could easily get into an unprotected eye. 1997 Australasian Jrnl. Dermatol. 38 71 Dimethylether/propane is an organic substance used as a refrigerant in a new cryodelivery system marketed for the treatment of warts. †b. figurative. A means of cooling passion, ardour, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxii. 191 This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 397 It is a consideration, Sir Poet, which may serve as a refrigerant for their ardour. 1863 Times 26 June 7/2 The second refrigerant of their zeal..was the depreciation of currency..and the simultaneous rise in the price of food and all the necessaries of life. c. In extended use: a means of cooling a person, etc., esp. a cooling or refreshing drink. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > cooling drink refrigerant1826 mug1829 febrifuge1860 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] cooler?1578 infrigidative1599 refrigerator1611 refrigeratory1650 chiller1798 refrigerant1826 algefacient1998 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 323 We read of Saints who resorted to such refrigerants as the ice bath and the bed of snow. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxx Discussing by way of refrigerant our eighth tumbler of whisky-punch. 1869 O. W. Holmes Cinders from Ashes in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 245 The saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart. 1993 W. G. Ryan tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legend (1995) II. 283 He heard a human voice coming from the ice... I am a soul punished in this refrigerant for my sins. †2. Chemistry. A cooling vessel placed at the head of a still; cf. refrigeratory n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > vessel of alembicc1405 retort1527 bagpipe1558 cornute1605 refrigeratory1605 campane1662 cornue1672 refrigerant1678 culb1683 vesica1683 blind-head1743 ambix1781 refrigerator1798 still-tub1826 wash-cistern1853 wash-warmer1900 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. i. ii. 5 But when you distill any considerable quantity, you must make use of a Refrigerant,..or of Vessels of Copper Tinn'd within, cover'd with their Moors head, and furnish'd with their Serpentine, which passes along a Vessel fill'd with cold water. 1716 ‘Colin Clout’ Mem. Fairy Land 30 I find the Air of these enchanted Groves, rarifies your Spirits very fast. Without the Refrigerant of a cool Fancy, they'll disorder the Head, into which the Spirits rise, by Heat to be distill'd into their proper Recipients. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Distilling The Parts of the Matters distill'd are raised up in the Form of Vapours,..and being sometimes help'd by a Refrigerant or Cooler, fall Drop by Drop into the Recipient. 1800 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller vii. 43 Alembics being never thoroughly secure on this kind of furnaces, a hook should be fastened to the refrigerant for fixing it to the wall. 1838 J. J. Griffin Chem. Recreations (ed. 8) i. 189 It is necessary to be careful..to keep the refrigerant supplied with cold water. 3. A substance used to produce or sustain a temperature near or below the freezing point of water. In later use chiefly: spec. a fluid, typically a readily liquefiable gas, used in a refrigerator (or dehumidifier) to transfer heat to the evaporating coils. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > freezing agent refrigerant1843 1843 J. F. Daniell Introd. Study Chem. Philos. (ed. 2) 162 A jet of liquid carbonic acid directed upon the bulb of a spirit thermometer will sink it to 130° below 0: but it does not readily act as a refrigerant to other bodies because it cannot easily be brought into actual contact with them. 1868 Sci. Amer. 19 Aug. 126/1 The water from the melting ice shall accumulate in the trough, and prevent the circulation of air through the refrigerant contained in said pocket. 1885 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1883–4 9 88 Boiling oxygen has been used as a refrigerant. 1901 Daily News 4 Mar. 7/4 The refrigerant is to be carbonic anhydride, or champagne gas. 1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 319/1 In the refrigerating cycle, the refrigerant is made to pass into the evaporating coils so as to enable heat to be absorbed from the commodity to be cooled. 1970 Times 16 June 2/7 The refrigerant takes heat from the water which in turn produces ice crystals and concentrates unwanted solids and salts into a brine slurry. 2001 J. H. Holloway in R. Catlow & S. Greenfield Cosmic Rays 90 The infamous CFCs..were first created as non-toxic, non-flammable refrigerants to replace SO₂. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1599
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