| 单词 | sensible caloric |
| 释义 | > as lemmassensible caloric sensible caloric n. [after German †sensibeler Wärmestoff (1796 in the passage translated in quot. 1800)] now historical the caloric fluid believed to cause a change in temperature of an object or substance (see caloric n. 1); cf. sensible heat n. ΚΠ 1800 tr. F. A. C. Gren Princ. Mod. Chem. I. ii. 114 That caloric, which on the formation of liquid, and of elastic fluid bodies, is fixed, and becomes imperceptible, must of course again present itself in the character of sensible or free caloric [Ger. sensibeler oder freyer Wärmestoff], and cause an increase of temperature, whenever elastic fluid bodies are transformed into liquid or solid ones; or when liquid are changed into solid bodies. 1847 J. H. Ward Steam for Million ii. 16 (heading) Theory of Latent and Sensible Caloric as applied to Steam. 1949 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 93 320/1 It seemed obvious that sensible caloric could be squeezed from a body by artificially pushing the atoms together into a closer proximity than the mutual repulsion of their caloric atmospheres would allow. 2005 Philos. Sci. 72 1354 Like Lavoisier, Laplace proposed that latent caloric causes volume expansion of gases while sensible caloric causes heating of gases. < as lemmas |
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