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- adjective resistant to heat passing through;
heat-resistant , heat-proof - adjective medicine without an increase in
temperature - adjective chemistry, of a chemical reaction involving no
energy exchange
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Rumford understood the athermic properties of a blanket of air-cells, thanks to the accumulated knowledge of his predecessors and his own studies and experiments.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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