Periodic trend
Molar Heat Capacity
Energy needed to raise one mole by one kelvin. Remarkably flat across the metals, which is what the Dulong-Petit law describes.
Highest
- 1Am Americium62.70
- 2Gd Gadolinium37.03
- 3Pu Plutonium35.50
- 4Cs Cesium32.21
- 5Rb Rubidium31.06
Lowest
- 1C Carbon8.52
- 2B Boron11.09
- 3Be Beryllium16.44
- 4Si Silicon19.79
- 5S Sulfur22.75
40 elements have no measured value for this property, so they are left out of the plot rather than drawn as zero. Almost all of them are synthetic elements that have never existed in weighable quantities.
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