effluvia

• According to the hypotheses above explained, there is but one way of conceiving this action at a distance; this is to suppose that it operates by the aid of certain effluvia which traverse space by passing from the hot body to the cold body; that is, to admit that a hot body emits in every direction rays of heat, as luminous bodies emit rays of light. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• The effluvia, the radiating emanations by the aid of which two distant bodies form a calorific communication with each other, have been very appropriately designated by the name of radiating caloric Whatever may be said to the contrary, radiating heat had already been the object of important experiments before Fourier undertook his labours. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• Since then practically every agent used attempting to keep her that way has added its own effluvia, and its combined reactive effluvia, to linger resistant to tanking. —  Analog February, 1971
• He doesn't try to blend in with the miasmic sludge of cultural effluvia-the grand digestion of nationalities. —  BadEagle.com
• "He doesn't try to blend in with the miasmic sludge of cultural effluvia-the grand digestion of nationalities." —  BadEagle.com

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