Assertion: heat | /r/HasProperty | fluid
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text: Thompson published a paper in 1798 that challenged the view that heat was a fluid that was conserved.
text: Similar experiments demonstrating that heat could be generated by an electric current dealt a further blow to the thought that heat was a fluid that was contained within substances and was always conserved.
text: Carnot’s basic assumption that heat is a fluid was flawed, but his reasoning was of sufficient generality that his conclusions about efficiency were correct, and proved to be a crucial step toward understanding engines, as we shall see.