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What is the heat capacity of a standard styrofoam cup?

What is the theoretical value for the heat capacity of a standard styrofoam cup? Thanks!

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  • Colin
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    In all the experiments I used to teach in thermochemistry we only used to worry about metal calorimeters and always took the heat capacity of styrofoam cups to be zero because they were such good insulators. That was the whole point of using them!

    Hope that helps!

    Source(s): retired chemistry teacher
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    It relies upon on your bra. If that's a "C" cup. ok, i'm purely kidding. truthfully there are 2 the style to handle this. you may get a measuring cup exceedingly for beverages which has a line indicating the quantity (i.e. a million/2 cup, 3/4 cup, a million cup etc.) that's going to even have the oz.. this way if the recipe demands oz. as a substitute of cups, you may equate the two..as an occasion, a million cup equals 8 oz.. any different way is with a container already at that length. they arrive as a set and so the measuring is already achieved for you. So in case you like a million/3 cup as an occasion, purely fill that container to the ideal and you're good to pass. the two device will artwork, however the 2d way is greater effective considering you do no longer could continuously hunch and spot in the adventure that your product lines up with the suitable line on the measuring cup. i'm hoping i've got defined this properly adequate. good success and function relaxing baking.

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