At 07:53 PM 1/27/2011, jimlux wrote...
I did do some googling and found this interesting statement in Wikipedia Another way of stating this, is that the volume-specific heat capacity (volumetric heat capacity) of solid elements is roughly a constant.
I'll admit that I'm prone to citing Wikipedia, but this is one case which clearly shows they're not authoritative. For just commonly available solid elements, there's a greater than 2:1 range. For time-nuts used to dealing with 10e-12 or smaller, that's no where near a "constant." Below are numbers I posted a bit ago for "hardware store" stuff, and one could no doubt find a much greater range in compounds, especially if you ignore availability/cost:
(substance) (specific heat) (density) (heat capacity?) ( ) (kJ/kg K) (g/ml^3)(kJ/l K) Al 0.91 2.7 2.5 Cu 0.39 9.96 3.9 Pb 0.13 11.36 1.5 Fe 0.46 7.87 3.6 H2O 4.2 1.0 4.2 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
