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specific heat

NOUN
heat required to raise temperature
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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

We are given that ΔT is 10.0ºC , but we must still find values for the mass of air and its specific heat before we can calculate Q .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Assume that the specific heat of lava is the same as that of granite.

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