Specific heat capacities of substances and materials
How much heat it takes to warm about 65 substances and building materials — metals, gases, liquids, water and ice, rock, concrete, wood — as specific heat capacity in J/(g·K), plus molar and volumetric heat capacity where listed. One row per substance and condition.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | # | integer | Position across the source tables. |
| substance | Substance | string | Substance or material, with any condition (temperature) given in the source. |
| phase | Phase | string | solid, liquid, gas or mixed, as written in the source. |
| table | Table | string | 'Main' or 'Building materials' — which source table the row comes from. |
| cp_j_per_g_k | Specific heat cP | number · J/(g·K) | Isobaric mass (specific) heat capacity, in joules per gram per kelvin. |
| cp_molar_j_per_mol_k | Molar CP | number · J/(mol·K) | Isobaric molar heat capacity. |
| cv_molar_j_per_mol_k | Molar CV | number · J/(mol·K) | Isochoric (constant-volume) molar heat capacity, where listed. |
| cp_volumetric_j_per_cm3_k | Volumetric CP | number · J/(cm³·K) | Isobaric volumetric heat capacity, in joules per cubic centimetre per kelvin. |
| cv_per_atom_r | CV per atom | number · R | Isochoric heat capacity per mole of atoms, in multiples of the gas constant R. |
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