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account of its large amount and high specific heat, constitutes the 
most important factor. The skillful investigator will, of course, 
seek to plan his experiments so as to avoid these fluctuations so far 
as possible, but they can rarely be completely eliminated and 
therefore we cannot expect that the emission of heat will correspond 
exactly to the production. 
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