Tuesday, July 20, 2010

What evidence contradicted the idea that heat was a fluid?

from count rumford
The fundamental observation is that a hot object does not lose mass as it cools. If heat were a fluid, cooling would cause a loss of mass and heating would cause an increase of mass.
From what I remember from high-school, it was a realization that it contradicted the laws of conservation (you could

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