Question

What is water equivalent?​

Answer 1

The water equivalent of a substance is equal to the amount of water needed to absorb the same amount of heat as that substance does for one degree of increase in temperature.

Therefore, water equivalent of a body equals the product of its mass and its specific heat.

Water equivalent = mass x specific heat

Water equivalent = Heat capacity

Answer 2

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Determination of Water Equivalent of Calorimeter. In a reaction the quantity of heat that raises the temperature of some substance by some amount, the same quantity of heat can simultaneously raise the same temperature of a certain mass of water. The mass of water is then termed as water equivalent.

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