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[RC] specific heat of water - Kathleen

Water has a high specific heat—which is the measure of how many calories it takes to raise one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius  and conversely how many calories would need to be lost to drop one gram of material by one degree C. 

The specific heat of water is 1 cal per gram-degree C.  (in contrast metals have numbers in the tenths of a calorie and lower).

Therefore, water heats slowly and cools slowly.

Kathleen Ferguson