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calorimetric

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  1. of, or relating to calorimetry, or measured by a calorimeter

    The climax was reached in the 1880's and 1890's through the meticulous work of the German physiologist Max Rubner. His calorimetric measurements of living organisms showed beyond any doubt that the law of conservation of energy held in living tissue as well as in the non-living universe.