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
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
Except for gases, the temperature and volume dependence of the specific heat of most substances is weak.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
A bar of lead similarly treated will show a faster rate of propagation than iron, because, although its conductivity is only half that of iron, its specific heat per unit volume is 2.5 times smaller.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
