Thermic

thermic may refer to one or more of these topics related to heat:

• a past synonym for thermal (also, thermics was a synonym for thermodynamics)
• the thermic effect of food (TEF)
• the thermic reaction of skin, a topic of 19th century hydrotherapy, but the phrase is also used more recently in other contexts PubMed
• thermic reaction may refer to a triggered change in body temperature
• thermic reaction or thermic process can refer to a chemical reaction that may turn out to be exothermic or endothermic
• the suffix -thermic, as in the following list of thermic inorganic reactions involving chemical reduction. (Highly thermic reactions are those requiring or producing a large amount of heat.)
  • Aluminothermic reaction, the thermite reaction being a prominent example
  • Calciothermic reaction
  • Carbothermic reaction
  • Silicothermic reaction
• thermic lance
• thermic component, thermic composition, thermic effect or thermic reaction may refer to a near-explosive property
• thermic reaction or thermic binding can refer to biochemical processes PubMed