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Re: [Phys-l] Caloric

JMGreen wrote:
There was not much response to the issue of caloric thus far. Let me be more direct:

For members of this list what is the difference in your views/ideas/images between "heat" and "caloric"?

The question was correctly answered by Joel Rauber on 4/20/2006,
to wit: The vast majority of incoming students have never heard
of caloric.

I see no reason to bring it up in class.
IMHO the less said about it, the better.

I consider the word to have value only for the nerdiest of trivia games
and jokes, along with other "vocabulary" words such as
orpiment
spiritus veneris
oil of dippel



Is that direct enough?