Re: microwave, RF heating

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 03:11 5/29/00 -0700, Bernard C. wrote:
> I suspect that the specific heat of "oil" is somewhat less than that of
water.  While each
> molecule of "oil" has only one OH bond as does water, its weight is much
greater,
> therefore the OH bond density of oils is also much lower than water's.
Evidently the
> specific heat is sufficiently low to overwhelm its decreased OH bond density.
> Assuming......

Confirming Bernard's suspicions, the specific heat capacity of numerous
organic solids averages around 0.3, that of numerous organic liquids averages
 around 0.4 in comparison to the SH of water. Oils in general float on water,
an observation of oil's comparitively lower density.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK