How is water's high specific heat capacity important for living organisms?

Subject: How is water's high specific heat capacity important for living organisms?

Date: Wed Sep 28 04:46:16 2005
Posted by Bethany Wilson
Grade level: 10-12 School: Hinchley Wood Sixth Form
City: No city entered. State/Province: Surrey Country: England
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 1127907976.Gb

Message:


I am writing an essay on "how water is important to living organisms". We were 
told to find out the properties of water and relate them to life processes. One 
of the properties is a high SHC. But that is as far as I got with that...

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