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In the seventeenth century, scientists held a clear association between heat and motion of constituent particles. Heat became recognized as a fluid that flowed from hot objects to cold ones. During Galileo's time, this heat fluid was known as...
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The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a fluid called caloric that flows from hotter to colder bodies. Caloric was also thought of as a weightless gas that could pass in and out of pores in solids and liquids. The...


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