What is heat capacity? Does water have a high or low heat capacity? What does that mean?

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What is heat capacity? Does water have a high or low heat capacity? What does that mean?



Answer: The measure of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree C. Water has a high heat capacity. That means it takes a large gain or loss of heat for water to change it's temperature

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