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The heat capacity of a sample should be divided by which quantity to find the specific heat capacity?

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The heat capacity of a sample should be divided by the number of moles of a substance to find the specific heat capacity of that substance. For example, the specific heat capacity of methane is 4.475 kJ/kg-K.

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