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“But to-night his little room was cold; unendurably cold; not even the flamings of genius could overcome its frigor; and hardly half an hour had passed before he became aware that his sanctum was altogether uninhabitable.”
“The southwest wind is the most prevalent, but it is generally moderate, and accompanied by clear skies; and the northeast and easterly winds usually bring with them continued rain in summer, and snow in winter; the northwest is remarkable for its dryness and elasticity, and, from its gathering an intense degree of frigor as it sweeps over the frozen plains and ice-bound hills in that quarter of the continent, invariably brings with it a perceptible degree of cold.”
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seanahan Thus frozen to death is frigor mortis. Jul 29, 2009
john “Frigor�? is one of the names given by 19th-century scientists to the realm of absolute zero, the bottom limit of cold. This is a place, the chemist and physicist James Dewar imagined, so cold that molecular motion ceases and the “death of matter�? ensues.
The New York Times, Less Than Zero, by Mary Roach, July 23, 2009 Jul 27, 2009