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If 50 g of each of the following metals absorb the same amount of heat which metal will show the greatest temperature increase?

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  • Roger the Mole
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    The greatest temperature increase will be exhibited by the metal with the lowest specific heat capacity, namely lead.

    So choose the first answer.

    [However the heat capacity of lead is actually near 160 J/g·°C.  But that still makes lead have the lowest specific heat capacity of the three possibilities.

    The 0.129 J/g·°C figure is appropriate to gold, not lead.]

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