diathermic

American  

[dahy-uh-thur-mik] / ˌdaɪ əˈθɜr mɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to diathermy.

2. capable of conducting heat.

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diathermic British  

/ ˌdaɪəˈθɜːmɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to diathermy

2. able to conduct heat; passing heat freely

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Etymology

Origin of diathermic

1830–40; < French diathermique; dia-, therm-, -ic

Example Sentences

Unlike fan-based heaters, radiators work by heating up a reserve of diathermic oil that transfers heat to the machine’s metal fins.

From Slate

Last week Dr. Eldridge reported that, in 250 pneumonia cases to which he applied this diathermic treatment, only three resulted in death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dissolving iodine in the bisulphide of carbon, a solution is obtained which entirely intercepts the light of the most brilliant flames, while to the ultra-red rays of such flames the same iodine is found to be perfectly diathermic.

From Project Gutenberg

For an alcohol flame Knoblauch and Melloni found glass to be less transparent than for the same flame with a platinum spiral immersed in it; but Melloni afterwards showed that the result was not general — that black glass and black mica were decidedly more diathermic to the radiation from the pure alcohol flame.

From Project Gutenberg

It is also a subject of discussion whether rock-salt is equally diathermic to all kinds of calorific rays; the differences affirmed to exist by some investigators being ascribed by others to differences of incidence from the various sources employed.

From Project Gutenberg