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- English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
How To Use Count Rumford In A Sentence
- Well, it seems Count Rumford also has his name encased in this sponge cake based, meringue topped insulated ice cream dish. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
- Count Rumford appears to have rightly conjectured that the inhabitants of certain hot countries, who sleep at nights on the tops of their houses, are cooled during this exposure by the radiation of their heat to the sky; or, according to his manner of expression, by receiving frigorific rays from the heavens. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
