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Lab question: When a student chemist transferred the metal to the calorimeter, some water splashed out of the calorimeter. Will this technique error result in the specific heat of the metal as being reported
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Lab question: When a student chemist transferred the metal to the calorimeter, some water splashed out of the calorimeter. Will this technique error result in the specific heat of the metal as being reported too high or too low?

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The temperature change is greater when assuming that the mass is constant and the heat must be greater in the result the heat of the metal as being reported too high.

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