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What did early chemists mean by a "caloric"??

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During the early period of chemistry, the word caloric would refer to as a self-repellant fluid. It can be proved by the caloric theory. The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder bodies.
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