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specific heat

NOUN
heat required to raise temperature
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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

Calculate its specific heat and identify the substance of which it is most likely composed.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

It affects the sense of sight, indeed, as the air affects the sense of hearing; but, so far as we know, it has no weight, no specific heat, no chemical affinity.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various



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