A device or substance that generates or produces heat, especially in industrial or biological applications.
From Latin 'calor' (heat) + '-ator' suffix (one who does). A technical term from 19th-century heat engineering.
Early calorisators were literal furnaces that heated water for factories, but the term evolved to include anything from chemical catalysts to your thyroid gland!
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