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Water's High Heat Capacity
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Water has a high heat capacity — a large amount of energy is needed to raise its temperature, because much of that energy first breaks hydrogen bonds.
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A large lake warms and cools far more slowly across a day than dry land beside it.
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Heat capacity describes the energy needed to change water's temperature, not the energy needed to change its state.