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
It is to Clausius that was reserved the credit of rediscovering the principle, and of enunciating it in language conformable to the new doctrines, while giving it a much greater generality.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
Clausius also gave us the extremely important principle: It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided, to transfer heat from one body at a low temperature to another having a higher temperature.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.
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