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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

Although the mass of the pan is twice that of the water, the specific heat of water is over four times greater than that of aluminum.

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

Adopting Regnault’s value of the specific heat of air, namely, S = .238, we should have S − s = .069.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various