Recent content by Ajaxx757

Chet, see my second post above. Do you believe my thought process is correct? I guess I'm asking, is you're statement based of a similar thought process of mine? And what would you have to say about my last portion with the particulates being in suspension and perhaps effecting how well heat is...

I would expect the dirty water to be a less efficient heat transfer medium and therefore have a higher specific heat. But, let's say I had 10g of pure water as sample A and 10g of dirty water (a mixture of sediments and iron oxides) as sample B, of that 10g the particulates account for .5g of...

The specific heat capacity of water is accepted to be roughly 4.18 J/gK. How would the specific heat value of a given water sample be effected when sediments and other forms of particulation, such as iron oxide from rust, are present? Would the mixture have a higher specific heat capacity value...