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adj. - Causing cold.

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Usage examples (14)
  • This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.
  • The term is applicable to machines or devices that force the heat transfer; for example, fans, frigorific, percolators, radiators, etc.
  • It suffices to cause the current of water which issues from the condenser of the frigorific machine to pass into the worm of the boiler.
  • In fact, the exhaust of the steam engine which actuates the sulphurous anhydride pump is directed into a worm which circulates through the first boiler, A, and the...
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