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Exothermic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Releasing heat: an exothermic reaction.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That releases energy in the form of heat.

adj. That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition

adj. Of an animal whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; ; -- opposed to endothermic.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Relating to a liberation of heat.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat

Word Usage

"So when you actually generate the chloroform, that chemical reaction is what ` s called exothermic, so it generates quite a good deal of heat, and that heat can get out of hand."

Antonym

endothermic

Cross Reference

exothermic compounds

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

endothermic hypodermic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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