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Meaning of athermancy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat; the quality of being a good insulator.

uncountable

Examples

“In fact the very experiments devised to show conductivity proved in a very striking manner the existence of athermancy, or opacity to radiant heat, in the case of a considerable number of gases.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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