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Heat capacity

Heat capacity

(Science: chemistry) The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of an object by one degree Celsius (or Kelvin), it is represented by the symbol c and is given in units of J/K.


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Please help with my work

1. you second answer is correct (plus they are hydrophobic) 3. a high heat capacity; doesn't change much; b on the microscale the water may buffer changes in temperature ...

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by JackBean
Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:30 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Please help with my work
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But since the efficiency is not 100%, where is the heat going inside your cells? As said, it's lost as heat. And for ETC - the reason ... can still occur without oxygen? Could be. The point is, there is high enough capacity to reoxidize the coffactors by lactate dehydrogenase. However, when there ...

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by JackBean
Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:49 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cellular Respiration help
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Re: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy

... with what they're attracted to (i.e. 'flip polarities') this emotional capacity to retain a neonatal mind into adulthood, is simultaneously accompanied ... degrades the ordered state of systems, what's known as entropy or 'heat loss,' and then is able to turn this change into information so that ...

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by Promethean
Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:19 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND EFFECTS

... Methane is more than 20 times as effectual as CO2 at entrapping heat in the atmosphere. Methane is obtained from resources such as rice paddies, ... to climate change. Human systems are seen as being variable in their capacity to adapt to future climate change. To reduce the risk of large changes ...

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by rheneelyn
Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:35 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Global Environmental Change
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Views: 74156

Redox potentials, oxidative metabolism, methylene blue etc.

... because the important enzymes have been irreversibly denatured by heat treatment) then there is no driving force to reverse the redox reaction, ... It is possible to add so much methylene blue that you exceed the capacity of the system. Under such a condition you will never see the decolorization ...

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by blcr11
Sat May 05, 2007 2:47 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Redox potentials, oxidative metabolism, methylene blue etc.
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