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=== Variation with temperature === [[File:Heat capacity of water 2.jpg|thumb|403x403px|Specific heat capacity of water<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heat capacity of water online |url=https://www.desmos.com/calculator/wicmrvrznj?lang=ru |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Desmos |language=ru}}</ref>]]The variation can be ignored in contexts when working with objects in narrow ranges of temperature and pressure. For example, the heat capacity of a block of [[iron]] weighing one [[pound (mass)|pound]] is about 204 J/K when measured from a starting temperature ''T'' = 25 °C and ''P'' = 1 atm of pressure. That approximate value is adequate for temperatures between 15 °C and 35 °C, and surrounding pressures from 0 to 10 atmospheres, because the exact value varies very little in those ranges. One can trust that the same heat input of 204 J will raise the temperature of the block from 15 °C to 16 °C, or from 34 °C to 35 °C, with negligible error.
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