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The Importance of Language in Students' Reasoning About Heat in Thermodynamic Processes

David T. BrookesDepartment of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Eugenia EtkinaThe Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Pages 759-779 | Published online: 27 Mar 2015

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