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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

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

You may neglect the effects of the surroundings and take the average specific heat of the rocks to be that of granite.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

He used the value 1⁄267 for the coefficient of expansion, and .267 for the specific heat of air.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various