Question

What is water equivalent?​

Answer 1

Water equivalent:

• The amount of water required to consume the same amount of heat as a substance consumes for one degree rise in the temperature is called water equivalent of a substance.
• It is also equivalent to the product of the mass of the substance and its specific heat.

Formula for water equivalent:

$\mathrm{Water}\mathrm{equivalent}=\mathrm{Mass}\times \mathrm{Specific}\mathrm{Heat}$