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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

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

Table 14.1 lists representative values of specific heat for various substances.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Its specific gravity is 6.739, and its specific heat 0.0877.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various