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jDavidson14
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Specific Heat Capacity and Latent Heat of NaCl Solutions

Hello, I hope you guys don't mind what's hopefully a quick and easy question, but which I can't find the answer to through Google.

I was wondering what the specific heat capacity of a frozen NaCl solution is. 0.25 Molar, 0.5 Molar, 0.75 Molar, and 1 Molar in particular. (By solution, it's simply water with NaCl dissolved inside.)

Also, the latent heat of fusion for the same solutions would be incredibly useful.

I tried to discover this via a lab, however the freezer unfortunately did not maintain a constant temperature and hence I found that the  specific heat capacity of 1 Molar NaCl solution was higher than that of pure water, which is obviously incorrect. It'd be really nice to know what exactly I'm looking for when I redo the experiment.

Thanks, and happy New Years!

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OakesCS
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Re: Specific Heat Capacity and Latent Heat of NaCl Solutions

Hi Jeremy,

take a look at Archer and Carter (2000) J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 8563 and subsequent citations to it.

Charles S. Oakes

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