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jdebruyn@newton.physics.mun.ca  writes:
> In article <1992Nov08.184022.19409@radford.vak12ed.edu> kgrossha@radford.vak12ed.edu (Kurt Grosshans) writes:
> >jerry@wshb.csms.com  writes:
> >> 
> >> I am trying to find what metals have these specific heats:
> >> 
> >>    1) 2740 joules/kg deg.C
> >>    2)  848.6 joules/kg deg.C
> >> 
> >> Please replay E-mail: jerry@wshb.csms.com
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance.
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> 
> >Am I crazy, or are his units off for numbers of that magnitude?
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> >Kurt Grosshans
> >kgrossha@radford.vak12ed.edu
> >
> 
> First of all, you are crazy. According to my handy CRC handbook
> of Chemistry and Physics, Aluminum, for example, has a specific heat
> of 0.215 cal/g-deg at 25 deg C and atmospheric pressure.
> This is .215*4.184*1000= 899.6 J/kg-deg in MKS units, pretty close
> to the original poster's #2. Most metals are lower. The closest
> thing to #1, according to my table, is Sodium, which at room temp.
> is about half of the desired (?) value. 
> 
> Now for the point which prompted me to post in the first place -
> why the #$%%& did the original poster ask for this info over the
> net? Why didn't he look it up in HIS CRC Handbook? It only took
> me a second. He has to wait longer than that to get his reply. I think
> some people tend to use their computers instead of their brains a
> little more than is prudent, sometimes!
> 
> ...a favorite gripe of mine, sorry.
> 
> 

Point 1 is well taken...

Point 2 is not. The CRC is a reference tool. So is the computer.
What's the problem?
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Kurt Grosshans
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