Clausius
Americannoun
noun
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A later review of Carnot’s findings by Rudolf Clausius introduced a new thermodynamic property that relates the spontaneous heat flow accompanying a process to the temperature at which the process takes place.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
“In handling a musket in battle, he was the equal of any in the company,” Gerhard P Clausius, a Belvidere amateur historian, wrote in his 1958 essay The Little Soldier of the 95th.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2017
Well, no, thermodynamics was developed by men like Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs—again, academics not steam mechanics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2015
Helmholtz, ten years later, beautifully developed the mathematics of media composed of moving, frictionless particles, and Clausius has carried on the work still further.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.
This is Thomson's theory of the irreversible dissipation of energy, and it is equivalent to the doctrine of Clausius concerning the growth of what he calls Entropy.
From Five of Maxwell's Papers by Maxwell, James Clerk
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