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
The reason is that water has a greater specific heat than most common substances and thus undergoes a small temperature change for a given heat transfer.
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
The specific heat per unit mass must then vary as p1/γ−1 which he found agreed precisely with the experiment of Delaroche and B�rard already cited.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
