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specific heat

noun as in heat required to raise temperature

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“Without a specific heat standard, it makes it more challenging for regulators to decide, ‘OK, this employer’s breaking the law or not.’”

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The panel finds that these specific heat events, as well as others, would have been “extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system.”

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They have a high “specific heat capacity” — it takes a lot of energy to raise their temperatures by just a degree.

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Rapid attribution analysis attempts to answer two questions about a specific heat event: how much worse, and how much more likely, did climate change make it?

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Known as the Breathing Shoe, the sneaker material is home to microorganisms that can learn a user’s specific heat emissions and opens up ventilation based on those patterns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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