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Boiling water is changing into steam. The specific heat of boiling water is
PhysicsThermal Properties of MatterAP EAMCETAP EAMCET 2021 (20 Aug Shift 1)
Options:
  • A zero
  • B One
  • C Infinity
  • D less than one
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The correct answer is: Infinity

Specific heat of any substance is the amount of heat transfer Q required to cause a unit rise in temperature T of a unit mass of that substance of mass m.

s=QmT

When boiling water changes into steam there is latent heat involved cause its a phase change process, during the phase change process there is no temperature change, therefore, T=0

Thus, the specific heat of boiling water undergoing through phase change is  s=QmT=Qm×0=

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