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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

Similar questions about specific heat a century ago led to early quantum mechanics.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The reason is that water has a greater specific heat than most common substances and thus undergoes a small temperature change for a given heat transfer.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Hence, violent changes in temperature, which might be disastrous to the life of the cell, are prevented by the high specific heat of the water which it contains.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred