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The word frigorific is employed in literature to convey both literal and metaphorical notions of coldness. In scientific and technical passages, it describes processes that produce or utilize intense cooling—whether referring to chemical reactions that form cold mixtures [1] or rapid vaporization methods that maximize cooling effects [2]. It is further extended to contexts involving machinery and apparatuses where the flow of cooling fluids is critical [3][4][5][6][7]. On a more figurative level, frigorific evokes a chilling atmosphere or emotional state; for example, its use to depict despair conveys an almost tangible numbness, with senses overwhelmed by cold lethargy [8], while other writings connect it to ethereal, almost philosophical impressions of a cold, distant nature [9].
  1. In chemistry , as a reagent; and, owing to the cold produced during its solution, to form frigorific mixtures.
    — from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
  2. This vaporization of liquids is a frigorific or cooling process, and when most rapid the frigorific effect reaches its maximum.
    — from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various
  3. It suffices to cause the current of water which issues from the condenser of the frigorific machine to pass into the worm of the boiler.
    — from Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
  4. This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.
    — from Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
  5. intitled Frigorific Experiments on the Mechanical Expansion of Air.
    — from The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
  6. At p. 31, ‘calorific and frigorific fluid.’ See also pp.
    — from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle
  7. A mixture of sulphide of carbon and solid carbonic anhydride forms almost the most powerful frigorific agent known.
    — from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
  8. When Verezzi's senses are "chilled with the frigorific torpidity of despair," his eyes "roll horribly in their sockets."
    — from The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
  9. It is the chilling influence of the ethereal stream which originated the idea among philosophers, of frigorific impressions, darted from a clear sky .
    — from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of StormsContaining the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

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