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
Calculate its specific heat and identify the substance of which it is most likely composed.
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
Laplace endeavoured to extract some confirmation of his views from the values given by Delaroche and B�rard for the specific heat of air at 1000 and 740 mm. pressure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
