thermic
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This process is called diet-induced thermogenesis or the thermic effect of food and it equates to about 10% of our daily energy expenditure.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2023
“One of the big black box elements in all of this is the thermic effect of food,” Urlacher says, referring to how much energy a person burns in digesting food.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Precautions were taken to protect two nearby thermic power plants in the vicinity, though they were not in immediate danger.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
Weiss says the snowman was first a commission of a German thermic power plant, year round.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
Crystallization, in fact, depends upon cohesion, and, in the thermic theory, this force is not distinct from affinity, just as solution and dissociation are not distinct from combination.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
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