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It is extremely difficult to establish the term heat within the framework of the phenomenological thermodynamics with a sufficient degree of precision. We will manage that very much smoother by the means and methods of Statistical Mechanics. In thermodynamics we are forced in a certain sense to accept an intuitive self-concept of this term.
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Nolting, W. (2017). Laws of Thermodynamics. In: Theoretical Physics 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47910-1_2
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