thermic

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“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

Protein has a higher thermic effect because it's harder for the body to break down.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

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

It appears," continued Bainbridge, on the following evening, "that Hili-li was subject to the recurrence about once in forty-seven years of a strange thermic phenomenon, the mean duration of which was about fifty hours.

From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn