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Noun: Benjamin Thompson
  1. English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
    - Thompson, Count Rumford

Type of: physicist

Encyclopedia: Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

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