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I'm not sure if you're asking for a specific element or substance, but I would say that a small substance with a lot of surface area would heat up very quickly.
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What does the specific heat of a substance?
The ability of a substance to hold heat.
What happens when you pore acetone on your palm and why?
Acetone is a volatile substance so it will evaporate. It will absorb heat from your palm and quickly convert from liquid to gas
What does specific heat of a substance represent?
The ability of a substance to hold heat.
What do you call heat that is added or removed from a substance but does not change the state of the substance sensible heat latent heat super heat or radiation heat?
Latent Heat.
What thermometer measures -specific heat of a substance -absolute temperature of substance -heat intensity?
specific heat thermometer
Is this true or false adding heat to a substance makes its molecules move quickly?
adding heat to a substance makes its molecules to move quickly
Does a substance that cools up quickly have high or low specific heat capacity?
It would have a LOW specific heat capacity because -- the subst heats up quickly which means you would use less heat capacity.
What substances that heat and cool quickly have a high or low specific heat?
A substance that has a low specific heat needs less heat to increase its temperature. In other words under a constant heat flux it will heat or cool more quickly than the higher specific heat substances.
Why hotter a substance faster it cools?
A hot substance will pass on heat to a substance at a cooler temperature. If it was surrounded by an even hotter substance it would be "given" heat. Heat can only flow from hotter to colder, just as water flows from higher to lower ground. If the temperature difference between the substances is great, then heat will pass more quickly, but if the difference is very slight, then the flow of heat will be very much slower.
Why a hotter substance cools faster?
A hot substance will pass on heat to a substance at a cooler temperature. If it was surrounded by an even hotter substance it would be "given" heat. Heat can only flow from hotter to colder, just as water flows from higher to lower ground. If the temperature difference between the substances is great, then heat will pass more quickly, but if the difference is very slight, then the flow of heat will be very much slower.
How does a substance with low specific heat cool down or heat up?
I think slowly because a substance that heats up quickly have a high specific heat capacity. i think slowly Specific heat is that amount of energy needed to raise a unit mass by a unit temperature. If something has a high specific heat, it means it needs a lot of energy to heat up, meaning slow.
The property which states how quickly a substance heats up or cools off?
(Specific) heat capacity.
What would heat quickly gold or copper?
gold :)
If you were trying to find a substance that increases in temperature rapidly you should choose a substance with?
A substance with a low heat capacity.A substance with a low heat capacity.A substance with a low heat capacity.A substance with a low heat capacity.
Which has the greater specific heat capacity- an object that cools quickly or an object of the same mass that cools more slowly?
The object that cools more slowly would have the greater specific heat, because the amount of heat that is needed to raise the temperature of it one degree is less than the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of the first object one degree. i.e. the object that cools quickly does so because it doesn't need a lot of heat to increase the temperature of it by one degree and the one that cools more slowly does so because it needs more heat to increase the temperature of it by one degree.
What happen to the density of a substance when you heat it?
Normally when you heat a substance its volume increases while mass stays the same. It may not be noticable but the density would decrease.
If a substance has a specific heat less than one would it take more or less heat to raise the temperature?
The higher the substance's specific heat capacity, the more heat energy is needed to raise it's temperature.
