A student heats a 5.0 g sample of an unknown metal to a temperature of 207∘C, and then drops the sample into a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 36.0 g of water at 25.0∘C. After thermal equilibrium has been established, the final temperature of the water in the calorimeter is 26.0∘C. What is the specific heat of the unknown metal? (The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g ∘C)

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Problem 9.82PAE: 9.82 The specific heat of gold is 0.13 J g-1 K-1 and that of copper is 0.39 J g-1 K-1. Suppose that...
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A student heats a 5.0 g sample of an unknown metal to a temperature of 207∘C, and then drops the sample into a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 36.0 g of water at 25.0∘C. After thermal equilibrium has been established, the final temperature of the water in the calorimeter is 26.0∘C. What is the specific heat of the unknown metal? (The specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g ∘C)

 

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