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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

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

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Rankine, in 1850, showed the inaccuracy of the then accepted value, 0.2669, of the specific heat of air under constant pressure, and calculated its value as 0.24.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.



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