frigoric
English
Noun
frigoric (uncountable)
- A hypothetical fluid medium of cold.
- 1815 April, K., “On Caloric and Frigoric”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume 35, page 213:
- It is a fact, that any liquid, (perhaps I might have said, any species of matter,) whilst at a temperature higher than that at which it attains its greatest density, decreases in volume as it absorbs frigoric.
- 1845, Edward King, Bliss not riches:
- The frigoric which is rendered latent in water, on its becoming ice, can be extricated or liberated in very amusing ways, by various frigorific mixtures.
- 1996, The Grolier Library of Science Biographies:
- If, as was widely believed at the time, heat was a fluid, called caloric, which flowed from hot bodies to colder ones, then it was reasonable to suppose that cold was also a fluid, "frigoric," which flowed from cold bodies to warmer ones.
See also
- caloric