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词汇 refrigerant
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refrigerant adj.

1590s, originally of medicinal plasters, etc., "abating heat, cooling;" from Latin refrigerans, present participle of refrigerare "make cool or cold, to cool down," from re- "again" (see re-) + frigerare "make cool," from frigus (genitive frigoris) "cold" (see frigid). As a noun from 1670s, originally of medicinal agents; sense of "anything which abates heat, a freezing agent" is by 1885.

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