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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

In general, the specific heat also depends on the temperature.

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

Heat, Black's study of latent heat, 39; specific heat, 98; Dalton lectures on, 117; law of capacity for heat, 168; heat as produced by friction, 217.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)



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