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What does exothermic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) That releases energy in the form of heat.
  2. (chemistry) That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition
  3. (zoology) Of an animal whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded
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Links are given to rules of thermochemistry and explanations of endothermic and exothermic reactions.
Thermal studies showed that the gel phase subsequently relaxes into the quasicrystalline phase in an exothermic transition.
Because the emission of radiation involves a loss of energy, chemiluminescent reactions must be exothermic.
For these exothermic processes, the solubility decreases with an increase in temperature.
The reaction of some hydrocarbons with iron ores is exothermic, so that additional heat may not be required.
Filler metal is obtained from an exothermic reaction between iron oxide and aluminum.

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