Crossword-Solution: DIATHERMIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diathermic | a. | Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DIATHERMIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| diathermal | 1 answer |
| permeable to or able to conduct radiant heat | 2 answers |
| CALESCENT | 7 answers |
| sunshiny | 8 answers |
| molten | 14 answers |
| Muggy | 19 answers |
| overheated | 35 answers |
| on heat | 46 answers |
| Pungent | 53 answers |
| Dry | 83 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEEAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIATHERMIC (5)
Dissolving iodine in the bisulphide of carbon, a solution is obtained which entirely intercepts the light of the most brilliant flames, while to the ultra-red rays of such flames the same iodine is found to be perfectly diathermic.
For an alcohol flame Knoblauch and Melloni found glass to be less transparent than for the same flame with a platinum spiral immersed in it; but Melloni afterwards showed that the result was not general--that black glass and black mica were decidedly more diathermic to the radiation from the pure alcohol flame.
Pure atmospheric air is perfectly diathermic to both luminous and dark heat, and vapors and gases are also diathermic to luminous heat.
Can you tell us, Ansel, how the temperature of the earth is affected by the atmosphere?" "You have already told us that the atmosphere is _diathermic_, allowing the heat of the sun to fall upon the earth almost undiminished in force.
The _diathermic_ quality of the air depends, then, not only upon the fact that it is composed of simple elements mingled, but not chemically joined, but also upon the _state_, or _condition_, of those simple elements.