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QuizMultiple Choice

Temperature and Heat

Question 7 • 25-26 CHEMISTRY IN THE EARTH SYSTEM S1

Elements with low specific heat values have which characteristic?

Answer
A
low atomic mass
B
high thermal energy
C
low kinetic energy
D
low number of atoms per gram

Explanation

Specific heat is the heat needed to raise one gram of a substance by one degree. For many elements, each atom absorbs a similar amount of heat, so a gram containing fewer atoms has a lower specific heat. Thus the characteristic is a low number of atoms per gram, choice D.

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