specific heat capacity

noun

1. cp. Also called: specific heat. the heat required to raise unit mass of a substance by unit temperature interval under specified conditions, such as constant pressure: usually measured in joules per kelvin per kilogram

Example Sentences

They have a high “specific heat capacity” — it takes a lot of energy to raise their temperatures by just a degree.

From Washington Post

For example, 75% of high school seniors could successfully use test strips to test water samples for the levels of four pollutants, record the data and interpret whether the results exceeded EPA standards, but only 25% of students were able to design and conduct an investigation using a simulated calorimeter and related patterns in temperature changes in two different metals to determine which metal has the higher specific heat capacity.

From Forbes