caloric

• At the same time, beverages that were sweetened with non-caloric artificial sweeteners appeared to carry no associated risk of coronary artery disease. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
• "The effect of friction is so great, that not only the physical properties, such as caloric, odour, etc., are thereby called into life and developed by it, but also the dynamic medicinal powers of natural substances are thereby developed to an incredible degree". —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• He wrote in 1825: "The effect of friction is so great, that not only the physical properties, such as caloric, odour, etc., are thereby called into life and developed by it, but also the dynamic medicinal powers of natural substances are thereby developed to an incredible degree". —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The tallow dip seemed full of caloric, and melted rapidly in pendulous drippings. —  The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
• This dilatation, however, is not effected by continuous application of combustibles, but by a peculiar process of transfer, by which the caloric is made to operate over and over again--namely, the heat of the air escaping from the working cylinder at each successive stroke of the engine, is transferred to the cold compressed air, entering the same; so that, in fact, a continued application of fuel is only necessary in order to make good the losses of heat occasioned by the unavoidable eradiation of the heated parts of the machine. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852

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