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Water has the highest heat capacity of all solids and liquids. True or False

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Answer:

False

Step-by-step explanation:

Heat capacity;

The ability of absorbing the heat is know as heat capacity of the substance.In other words we can say that the ability to retain the heat without changing its temperature is known as heat capacity.

The specific heat of water (liquid) is 4.1813 KJ/kgK andf the specific heat of ammonia (liquid) is 4.7 KJ/kgK.

So we can say that the above given statement is False.

Therefore answer is --

False

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