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Sascha notices that it takes a long time for a pot of water to reach the boiling point. What property of water is she observing?


Water has a high specific heat capacity.

Water has a low specific heat capacity.

Water has a high heat of vaporization.

Water has a low heat of vaporization.

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Frasty

If my letter guessing is right i would go with A or the first one

Answer: Option (a) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Specific heat is defined as the heat energy necessary to raise the temperature of a 1 kg of substance by one degree celsius.

For example, specific heat of water is 4.18 J \(kg^{-1} ^{o}C^{-1}\)

Whereas heat of vaporization is the energy absorbed at a certain temperature to convert a unit mass of a substance from liquid to vapor state.

Hence, we can conclude that Sascha is observing the property that water has a high specific heat capacity.

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