What do you mean by specific heat?

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The specific heat of an object is the amount of heat that is required to increase the temperature of the unit mass of that particular substance by one degree.
This is represented by the symbol ‘c’. Its unit in SI is Joule /(kg°C) and in CGS is cal/(gm°C).

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