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conservation of energy

noun

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  1. a principle stating that energy may not be created or destroyed

    • Robert Mayer is well known as one of the several codiscoverers of the principle of the conservation of energy, the formulation of which was arguably the most important single development in physics during the ...
    • Like the concept of conservation of mass, the idea of conservation of energy is also applicable to all chemical reactions.
    • Temperatures decrease with altitude due to adiabatic cooling (a rising parcel of air expands, and must therefore cool due to conservation of energy).

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No curated loop yet for conservation of energy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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