While a solid is melting at its melting point, the heat supplied:
Calorimetry
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Water has an unusually high specific heat capacity, so a given mass of it absorbs a large quantity of heat for a small rise in temperature. It can therefore carry a great deal of heat away from the engine without itself becoming very hot, and it is cheap and easily available.
No citable source has been recorded for this record. Treat it as practice material, not as fact.
The same property makes coastal climates milder than inland ones.
From the same topic and chapter, at a similar level.
While a solid is melting at its melting point, the heat supplied:
Calorimetry
Calculate the heat needed to melt 100 g of ice at 0 °C into water at 0 °C. Take the specific latent heat of fusion of ice as 336 J g−1.
Calorimetry
Why does the temperature of a substance not change while it is melting, even though heat is being supplied?
Calorimetry
Why is a burn caused by steam at 100 °C more severe than one caused by water at 100 °C?
Calorimetry
Calculate the heat needed to raise the temperature of 200 g of water from 20 °C to 100 °C. Take the specific heat capacity of water as 4200 J kg−1 K−1.
Calorimetry
Calculate the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 200 g of water from 25 °C to 75 °C. (Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2 J g−1 °C−1)
Calorimetry