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- Climate [r]: The overall weather pattern for an extended period for any defined geographical location which may be over any size of area up to and including the entire Earth. [e]
- Count Rumford [r]: (1753–1814) An American born soldier, statesman, scientist, inventor and social reformer. [e]
- International System of Units [r]: Metric unit system based on the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole and candela. [e]
- Joule [r]: The SI unit of energy (symbol: J) which is a measure of the capacity to do work or generate heat. [e]
- Nuclear fuel [r]: Material that can be consumed to derive nuclear energy, usually heavy fissile elements that can be made to undergo nuclear fission chain reactions in a nuclear fission reactor. [e]
- Specific heat ratio [r]: The ratio of the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure,
, to the specific heat at constant volume, 
, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. [e]
- Specific heat [r]: The ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a body one degree to that required to raise the temperature of an equal mass of water one degree Celsius. [e]
- Temperature [r]: A fundamental quantity in physics - describes how warm or cold a system is. [e]
