calorimetry
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- calorimetric adjective
- calorimetrical adjective
- calorimetrically adverb
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Origin of 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
The amount of stored energy in the algal mats can be determined by calorimetry.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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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