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Water take a (long/short) time to heat up due to it's High Specific Heat.
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Water take a (long/short) time to heat up due to it's High Specific Heat.

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Because of water's specific heat capacity, it takes longer for the water to heat up. This is useful because if water heated up quickly, then the ocean would be literally boiling, and it would evaporate into the atmosphere.
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