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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

Calculate its specific heat and identify the substance of which it is most likely composed.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

We are given that ΔT is 10.0ºC , but we must still find values for the mass of air and its specific heat before we can calculate Q .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This molecular work is that which has usually been called specific heat, or capacity for heat.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John