Note 65 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Proposal of a New Nomenclature for the Science of Calorific Radiations, by M. Melloni. Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, No. 70. Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii. part 12. Many of the terms, as Diathermasy, or transparency for heat; Adiathermasy, opacity for heat; Thermochroic, coloured for heat, and others, are valuable suggestions of forms of expression which are required in dealing with these physical phenomena.