Water has a very high specific heat capacity when compared to most other common materials. In fact, ethyl alcohol has a specific heat that is only about that of water, whereas the specific heat of lead is about that of water. Suppose that you have equal‑mass samples of each material and that each sample is at the same initial temperature. You then carefully transfer the same amount of heat into each sample and measure the resulting final temperature of each. Rank the final temperature of each sample from highest to lowest.

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30 May, 18:15

Water has a very high specific heat capacity when compared to most other common materials. In fact, ethyl alcohol has a specific heat that is only about that of water, whereas the specific heat of lead is about that of water. Suppose that you have equal‑mass samples of each material and that each sample is at the same initial temperature. You then carefully transfer the same amount of heat into each sample and measure the resulting final temperature of each. Rank the final temperature of each sample from highest to lowest.

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Stephen Hamilton · Answer 1

Lead, Ethyl alcohol and water.

Explanation:

Specific heat capacity of a substance can be define as the quantity of heat that is absorbed by a substance needed to change the temperature of a unit mass of one kilogram of the substance by one kelvin