calefaction

The term calefaction has also been used in the manufacturing of steam engines and steam cars.

Calefaction comes from the Latin calor meaning "heated", and facere "to make."

The Calefaction (Played 6/27)

Is it possible that in ceasing to be that first stone, and at the moment of becoming another, it does not feel its own calefaction, and with it the imminence of its own death?

In the modern sciences, the term calefaction shows up occasionally in relation to the fields of cryogenics, geology, mineralogy, inorganic chemistry, material sciences, and both scientifically and commercially in the study and process of sintering.