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

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

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Increase of specific heat is a necessary accompaniment of dissociation, and from some points of view may be regarded as merely another way of stating the facts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various