calorimetry
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The team also used indirect calorimetry with respiratory gas analysis to better understand energy use.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026
For example Carla Prado's team at University of Alberta undertook whole-body calorimetry to understand the energy expenditures of women who had recently given birth.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The caloric content of foods can be determined by using bomb calorimetry; that is, by burning the food and measuring the energy it contains.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Erickcek, A. L., Steinhardt, P. J., McCammon, D. & McGuire, P. C. Constraints on the interactions between dark matter and baryons from the x-ray quantum calorimetry experiment.
From Nature ● Feb. 27, 2018
The earlier attempts by Lavoisier and others, employing the ordinary methods of calorimetry, gave very uncertain and discordant results, which were not regarded with any confidence even by the experimentalists themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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