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specific heat

NOUN
heat required to raise temperature
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Additional evidence came from specific heat measurements, which supported the idea that these predicted emergent photons follow a dispersion resembling the way sound moves through a solid.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

“Without a specific heat standard, it makes it more challenging for regulators to decide, ‘OK, this employer’s breaking the law or not.’”

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2023

In general, the specific heat also depends on the temperature.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The specific heat values for water and aluminum are given in Table 14.1.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Early in his career Cavendish took up the study of heat, and had he promptly published his results he might have anticipated Joseph Black as the discoverer of latent heat and of specific heat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various



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