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specific heat

NOUN
heat required to raise temperature
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No, this project, which comes with an estimated price tag of $5 billion to $20 billion a year, wouldn’t quench specific heat waves or fires.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Attribution science seeks to untangle how much human-caused climate change shaped a specific heat wave, storm or flood, and its findings now shape litigation and policy.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

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

He found the specific heat of superheated steam to be 0.4805.

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



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