Frigoric

Quick meaning: Frigoric is a noun meaning A hypothetical fluid medium of cold, in analogy to caloric.

Meaning

A hypothetical fluid medium of cold, in analogy to caloric.

Example Sentences

The frigoric which is rendered latent in water, on its becoming ice, can be extricated or liberated in very amusing ways, by various frigorific mixtures.

It is a fact, that any liquid, (perhaps I might have said, any species of matter,) whilst at a temperature higher than that at which it attains its greatest density, decreases in volume as it absorbs frigoric.

If, as was widely believed at the time, heat was a fluid, called caloric, which flowed from hot bodies to colder ones, then it was reasonable to suppose that cold was also a fluid, "frigoric," which flowed from cold bodies to warmer ones.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frigefaction, cryogen, cryofluid, cryophorus, cryology, frigidization.

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