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Meanings of thermal capacity in English

Russian
изобарная теплоёмкость
Portuguese
capacidade térmica
Spanish
capacidad calorífica
Catalan
calor específic

Extensive physical property of the amount of energy required to increase temperature.

        изобарная теплоёмкость
        Synonyms
        Examples for "heat capacity"
        Examples for "heat capacity"
        1
        He is mostly water, which has ten times the heat capacity of any metal.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        2
        I didn't know the heat capacity of the surrounding rock, or its boiling point.
        The Forever War
        3
        It relies on gallium nitride, a hard, stable material with a huge heat capacity.
        Wired
        4
        Furthermore, the binding heat capacity change was identified from the ITC data at various temperatures.
        Pubmed
        5
        The specific heat capacity of air is so poor that actually the heat dissipates really quickly.
        Wired
        Usage of thermal capacity in English
        1
        To think there was sufficient thermal capacity in the system and it wasn't used is angering to me, he said.
        News.com.au
        2
        BEE said an expansion could cure that problem, but could not happen as long as Germany is oversupplied with thermal capacity.
        Reuters
        3
        California's plan is a 14-fold increase over current global solar thermal capacity, the report said, illustrating the technology risk inherent in the buildout.
        Reuters
        4
        Maximising thermal capacity where the sun heats a material during the day is trickier, because it relies on good design at the outset, he says.
        Radio NZ