Heat capacity of water
The heat capacity of water is one of the so-called anomalous effects; the value of in liquid water is more than twice that of ice Ih and almost three times that of the vapour.
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Related reading
- Wataru Shinoda and Motoyuki Shiga "Quantum simulation of the heat capacity of water", Physical Review E 71 041204 (2005)
- Motoyuki Shiga and Wataru Shinoda "Calculation of heat capacities of light and heavy water by path-integral molecular dynamics", Journal of Chemical Physics 123 134502 (2005)
- C. Vega, M. M. Conde, C. McBride, J. L. F. Abascal, E. G. Noya, R. Ramirez, and L. M. Sesé "Heat capacity of water: A signature of nuclear quantum effects", Journal of Chemical Physics 132 046101 (2010)