Continuous-cooling method of specific heat measurement in the temperature range 100-300 K
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 21 (11) , 1017-1022
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3735/21/11/002
Abstract
The authors have developed a simple continuous-cooling method to determine specific heat of liquids and solids in the temperature range 100-300 K. The technique employs very simple instrumentation and continuously records the sample temperature as it cools to the bath temperature through a calibrated heat link. They have obtained specific heat values which agree with the reported data to within 3% for the samples investigated. This method also facilitates easy detection of abrupt changes in specific heat, as demonstrated in the observation of glass transition in some organic glass-forming systems. The method is sensitive to the study of relaxing heat capacity in supercooled liquids.Keywords
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