The specific heat capacity of water is more than that of iron, what do you mean by it. Justify

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This means that if water and iron has same mass, then water will required more thermal energy to increase same temperature.
Specific heat is defined as the heat required per unit mass to increase the temperature by one unit. So higher specific heat means, it will required more heat to increase same temperature.

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