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A student heats 61.27 grams of silver to 97.71 °C and then drops it into a cup containing 82.16 grams of water at 22.97 °C. She measures the final temperature to be 26.08 °C. The heat capacity of the calorimeter (sometimes referred to as the calorimeter constant) was determined in a separate experiment to be 1.54 J/°C. Assuming that no heat is lost to the surroundings calculate the specific heat of silver. Specific Heat (Ag) = ] J/g°C.

A student heats 61.27 grams of silver to 97.71 °C and then drops it into a cup containing 82.16 grams of water at 22.97 °C. She measures the final temperature to be 26.08 °C. The heat capacity of the calorimeter (sometimes referred to as the calorimeter constant) was determined in a separate experiment to be 1.54 J/°C. Assuming that no heat is lost to the surroundings calculate the specific heat of silver. Specific Heat (Ag) = ] J/g°C.

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