diathermic

[dahy-uh-thur-mik]

adjective

1. of or relating to diathermy.

2. capable of conducting heat.

diathermic

/ ˌdaɪəˈθɜːmɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to diathermy

2. able to conduct heat; passing heat freely

Word History and Origins

Origin of diathermic¹

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The latter are far more diathermic than the former.

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