The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
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- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: August 31, 1821
- Died: September 8, 1894
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the rooms,
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and I was eighteen,
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