Thermochrosy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thermochrosy \Ther*moch"ro*sy\, n. [Thermo- + Gr. ? coloring.]
     (Physics)
     The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light,
     of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are
     unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic
     substances.


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