heat capacity

Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia

English

Noun

heat capacity (plural heat capacities)

  1. (physics) The capability of a substance to absorb heat energy; specifically, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one mole or gram of a substance by one degree Celsius without any change of phase

Translations

↑Jump back a section

Read in another language

Last modified on 10 November 2012, at 15:06