calory (kalori)

[F. calorie, 771 definitions, yet it is practically a umed that the specific heat of water is constant; so that if the calory were defined in terms of the degree from 20° to 21°, it would more accurately represent the meaning in use. Also spelled calorie. • The Calorie is equal to 41,593,010,000 ergs or 423.985 kilogramme-metres. A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 317. Calosoma, Callosoma (kal-ō-sō'mä), n. [NL., (Gr. καλός , beautiful, + σῶμα , body.] A large genus of beautiful adephagous Coleoptera , or carnivorous beetles, of the family Carabid a . C. sycophant a, about an inch in length, is the largest and handsomest British insect of the family. C. inquisitor , IMG:content-2954.png:[blocks in formation] ern Europe is an example. C. caltrop saturated with iodide of pota ium and then washed with nitrate of silver, thus forming an iodide of silver, which is rendered very sensitive to light by a wash of gallic acid and nitrate of silver. After due instructions, we seated ourselves at the open windows,- Storg to sketch, and I to take a mental calo type of the view. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 257.