Calorimeter is an instrument for measuring the specific heat of a body; the determination being effected by ascertaining the quantity of ice at zero which is turned into water by the transference to it of heat from the body (at a known temperature) under examination. See HEAT.
Calorimeter
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 656
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