What is "exotherm"

Usage examples of "exotherm".

The problem here was that the bags of exotherm and fuel had shifted around as the boat melted its way to the surface.

Unnerby pushed open the hatch, and the team formed a chain, handing equipment and exotherm tanks from one to the next to the next, until the ground just beyond the pool was piled with the gear they would carry.

So when Sherkaner slopped exotherm sludge into the airsnow, there was a burst of vapor, and then a tiny glow that faded as the still-liquid droplet sank and cooled.

The exhalation of a trillion budding exotherms melted the ice above the little vehicle.

The exotherms were essential for heat, but if the Team had to compete with them for oxygen the Team would be the dead loser.

The rest of the mission must be powered by just the exotherms they could carry and what fuels they could find beneath the snow.

More than anything else, the exotherms were the trick that made this walk in the Dark possible.

However clever the idea, using exotherms was still a form of firemaking.

Underhill and company had at most fifteen hours before the last of their exotherms would all die.

While Nizhnimor and Haven rested, Unnerby and Underhill would look about for where the exotherms had found the richest fuel.

But without fuel for the exotherms, the cold quickly became numbing, spreading in from the joints in the suits and up from their footpads.

They had only a few quarts of living exotherms by the time they reached their goal.

The exhalation of a trillion budding exotherms melted the ice above the little vehicle.

The exotherms were essential for heat, but if the Team had to compete with them for oxygen the Team would be the dead loser.

There were still glimmers of heat-red light, where exotherms had sprayed across the ground.