specific heat capacity

Specific heat capacity is a fundamental property of a material that indicates how much energy is required to raise the temperature of a given mass fraction of the material by one degree Kelvin. It is measured in joules per gram per kelvin (J/g·K).

In other words, specific heat capacity describes the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one unit kelvin. This property varies from material to material and is crucial for many technical applications and processes in physics, chemistry and engineering.