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Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3. Chloric ether (Chem.), ethylene dichloride. See Dutch liquid, under Dutch.

To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.…

Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.

See Chloridate.

See Chlorometry.

To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.

The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.

A compound of chlorine and iodine. [R.]

us to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.