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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

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

It is the same faculty for distinguishing specific heat that enables certain blind people to recognize colors.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)