Water's Specific Heat
Classical Mechanics
Level
3
When boiling water changes into steam, the specific heat of water is
Infinite
Zero
Less than one
One
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1 solution
During phase change of water to steam, the heat provided is used up to change the phase without any change in temperature of the entire mixture. So Δ T = 0 and hence the specific heat capacity is ∞ .