specific heat
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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
In general, the specific heat also depends on the temperature.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Similar questions about specific heat a century ago led to early quantum mechanics.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The heat given out by the substance will be hdT, where h is the specific heat of the substance in the second phase.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew