specific heat
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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
Calculate its specific heat and identify the substance of which it is most likely composed.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Values of specific heat must generally be looked up in tables, because there is no simple way to calculate them.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But if the piston had been fixed the heat required for the same rise of temperature would have been Cv, the specific heat at constant volume.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
