🔥 Heat-producing 🌋 Made by heat

thermogenic

7.5

Formed by heat, often deep underground in rocks

adjective
/ˌθɜrməˈdʒɛnɪk/

Specialized

: termogénico

And lo and behold, that's why they're thermogenic compounds.

Examples

Certain bacteria can create thermogenic methane as they break down organic waste in landfills.
And lo and behold, that's why they're thermogenic compounds.
Thermogenic substances are often produced during the decomposition of organic materials.
Researchers discovered that thermogenic methane is released from deep geological formations.

Synonyms

thermic

vsthermogenic

1 7.8

Happening because of heat

is about formation by heat through thermal decomposition or transformation

pyrochemical

vsthermogenic

Specialized

9.9

Involving chemical reactions at very high temperatures

is formed by heat through general thermal processes such as decomposition

pyrogenous

vsthermogenic

Specialized

9.9

Made by very high heat, for example in volcanoes

is used for substances formed by heat through decomposition or transformation

pyrogenic

vsthermogenic

Specialized

9.9

Formed by very high heat deep in the earth, often near volcanoes

is broader, covering substances formed by heat in many processes

Surface Forms

thermogenic positive

Morphology

thermogenic = thermo + genic

The form clearly signals a relation to heat, but the specialized sense 'formed or produced by heat' is not fully recoverable from the components alone.

Etymology

Thermogenic comes from the Greek parts thermo- meaning 'heat' and -genic meaning 'making', as in thermal and generate. So thermogenic can also mean 'made by heat', for example gases or materials formed when something is heated deep in the Earth.