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
Except for gases, the temperature and volume dependence of the specific heat of most substances is weak.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Owing to the fact that the specific heat or thermal capacity of mercury is only about one-thirtieth of that of water, it requires a considerable amount of melted mercury to produce the desired result.
From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John
