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Does the sun heat salt water and freshwater at the same rate?
Question Date: 2019-01-29
Answer 1:

The sun should heat salt water faster, because salt water has smaller “heat capacity” than fresh water. Heat capacity basically measures how much heat an object needs to absorb to increase one degree of temperature.



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