Specific heat of pure single-crystal and polycrystalline copper below 3 °K

1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1253-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Martin

Within the error limits of the measurement there is no difference between the specific heats of pure single-crystal and pure polycrystalline copper below 3 °K. It is suggested that previous observation of such a difference was because the single crystal had not been degassed before measurement.

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 3719-3728 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rittel ◽  
A.A. Kidane ◽  
M. Alkhader ◽  
A. Venkert ◽  
P. Landau ◽  
...  

The specific heats of three paramagnetic salts, neodymium magnesium nitrate, manganous ammonium sulphate and ferric ammonium alum, have been measured at temperatures below 1°K using the method of γ -ray heating. The temperature measurements were made in the first instance in terms of the magnetic susceptibilities of the salts, the relation of the susceptibility to the absolute temperature having been determined for each salt in earlier experiments. The γ -ray heatings gave the specific heat in arbitrary units. The absolute values of the specific heats were found by extrapolating the results of paramagnetic relaxation measurements at higher temperatures. The measured specific heat of neodymium magnesium nitrate is compared with the value calculated from paramagnetic resonance data, and good agreement is found.


1865 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 71-202 ◽  

I. About the year 1780 it was distinctly proved that the same weights of different bodies require unequal quantities of heat to raise them through the same temperature, or on cooling through the same number of thermometric degrees, give out unequal quantities of heat. It was recognized that for different bodies the unequal quantities of heat, by which the same weights of different bodies are heated through the same range, must be determined as special constants, and considered as characteristic of the individual bodies. This newly discovered property of bodies Wilke designated as their specific heat , while Crawford described it as the comparative heat, or as the capacity of bodies for heat . I will not enter upon the earliest investigations of Black, Irvine, Crawford, and Wilke, with reference to which it may merely be mentioned that they depend essentially on the thermal action produced when bodies of different temperatures are mixed, and that Irvine appears to have been the first to state definitely and correctly in what manner this thermal action (that is, the temperature resulting from the mixture) depends on the original temperature, the weights, and the specific heats of the bodies used for the mixture. Lavoisier and Laplace soon introduced the use of the ice-calorimeter as a method for determining the specific heat of bodies; and J. T. Mayer showed subsequently that this determination can be based on the observation of the times in which different bodies placed under comparable conditions cool to the same extent by radiation. The knowledge of the specific heats of solid and liquid bodies gained during the last century, and in the first sixteen years of the present one, by these various methods, may be left unmentioned. The individual determinations then made were not so accurate that they could be compared with the present ones, nor was any general conclusion drawn in reference to the specific heats of the various bodies. 2. Dulong and Petit’s investigations, the publication of which commenced in 1818, brought into the field more accurate determinations, and a general law. The investigations of the relations between the specific heats of the elements and their atomic weights date from this time, and were afterwards followed by similar investigations into the relations of the specific heats of compound bodies to their composition. In order to give a general view of the results of these investigations, it is desirable to present, for the elements mentioned in the sequel, a synopsis of the atomic weights assumed at different times, and of certain numbers which stand in the closest connexion with these atomic weights.


2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chaparro ◽  
L. Fang ◽  
H. Claus ◽  
A. Rydh ◽  
G. W. Crabtree ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.B. Nyeanchi ◽  
D.F. Brewer ◽  
T.E. Hargreaves ◽  
N.E. Hussey ◽  
A.L. Thomson ◽  
...  

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (14) ◽  
pp. 1853-1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva I. Vargha-Butler ◽  
A. Wilhelm Neumann ◽  
Hassan A. Hamza

The specific heats of five polymers were determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in the temperature range of 300 to 360 K. The measurements were performed with polymers in the form of films, powders, and granules to clarify whether or not DSC specific heat values are dependent on the diminution of the sample. It was found that the specific heats for the bulk and powdered form of the polymer samples are indistinguishable within the error limits, justifying the determination of specific heats of powders by means of DSC.


1845 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 373-374
Author(s):  
M. Regnault

Professor Forbes observed that, in his communication to the Royal Society on the Conductivity of Soils for Heat, on the 20th December last (see Proceedings, page 343*), he had referred to the separation of the conductivity and specific heat, which are involved in the results of the thermometric experiments on subterranean temperature. In order to eliminate the effect of specific heat, M. Regnault of Paris (well known by his experiments on this subject) undertook, at the request of M. Elie de Beaumont, to ascertain the specific heats of the soils in which the different sets of thermometers are sunk.


1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 1104-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Martin

Specific-heat measurements on silver and gold in the 15–320 K range are reported and compared with earlier measurements on these metals. The present results together with recent measurements on copper (D. L. Martin, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 58, 639 (1987)) are analyzed in terms of the Debye temperature. The results suggest a negative anharmonic contribution to specific heat for silver and gold. Structure in the results for all three metals below 60 K is consistent with known imperfections in the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968.


The present paper is occupied with an experimental investigation into the variation of the specific heat at constant volume of carbon dioxide attending change of absolute density. The investigation is in continuation of a previous one, in which Carbon Dioxide, Air, and Hydrogen were the subjects of a similar enquiry over low ranges of density. It appeared to me desirable to extend the observations more especially in the case of carbon dioxide, because of the extended knowledge we already possess of its isothermals, and the fact that its critical temperature is within convenient reach. Other physical properties of the gas have also received much attention of recent years. It is also readily procured in a nearly pure state. The observations recorded in this paper extend, in the one direction, to densities, such that liquid is present at the lower temperature; and in the other, to a junction with the highest densities of the former paper. A plotting of the new observations is in satisfactory agreement with the record of the old. It reveals, however, the fact that the linear nature of the variation of the specific heat with density, deduced from the former results, is not truly applicable over the new, much more extended range observation. For convenience the chart at the end of this paper embraces the former results, and the present paper is extended to include the entire results on the variation of specific heat with density where the range of temperature, obtaining at each experiment, is approximately the same: that from air temperature to 100° C.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 3947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Malicka ◽  
Małgorzata Karolus ◽  
Tadeusz Groń ◽  
Adrian Gudwański ◽  
Andrzej Ślebarski ◽  
...  

Structural, electrical, magnetic, and specific heat measurements were carried out on ZnCr2Se4 single crystal and on nanocrystals obtained from the milling of this single crystal after 1, 3, and 5 h, whose crystallite sizes were 25.2, 2.5, and 2 nm, respectively. For this purpose, the high-energy ball-milling method was used. The above studies showed that all samples have a spinel structure, and are p-type semiconductors with less milling time and n-type with a higher one. In turn, the decrease in crystallite size caused a change in the magnetic order, from antiferromagnetic for bulk material and nanocrystals after 1 and 3 h of milling to spin-glass with the freezing temperature Tf = 20 K for the sample after 5 h of milling. The spin-glass behavior for this sample was derived from a broad peak of dc magnetic susceptibility, a splitting of the zero-field-cooling and field-cooling susceptibilities, and from the shift of Tf towards the higher frequency of the ac susceptibility curves. A spectacular result for this sample is also the lack of a peak on the specific heat curve, suggesting a disappearance of the structural transition that is observed for the bulk single crystal.


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