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(e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen). The term exothermic was coined by 19th-century French chemist Marcellin Berthelot.

The opposite of an exothermic process is an endothermic process, one that absorbs energy, usually in the form of heat. The concept is frequently applied in the physical sciences to chemical reactions

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