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Headword Date Article Type
Joseph Black discovers that ice absorbs heat without changing temperature when melting 1761 T
Mechanical equivalent of heat found by James Joule 1843 T
Absolute zero point of temperature discovered by Lord Kelvin 1848 T
Entropy 1850 T Note
James Joule and Lord Kelvin demonstrate that a rapidly expanding gas cools 1852 T
Lord Kelvin formally states the second law of thermodynamics 1874 T
Radioactivity identified as partially responsible for the Earth’s heat 1903 T Note
Kinetic theory of gases developed systematically by Sydney Chapman and David Enskog 1916 T

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