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
This relationship can also be considered as the definition of specific heat.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
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
For details of more recent and accurate methods of determination, the reader should refer to the article Calorimetry, where tables of the variation of the specific heat of water with temperature are also given.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
