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
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
Hence, violent changes in temperature, which might be disastrous to the life of the cell, are prevented by the high specific heat of the water which it contains.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
