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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being adiathermanous; the property by virtue of which a substance absorbs the invisible heatrays of the spectrum: opposed to diathermancy.
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- noun obsolete A
resistance to the flow ofheat
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fbharjo commented on the word adiathermancy
a different type of radiator
August 24, 2009