Define specific heat capacity and state its units.

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The specific heat capacity of a substance is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of unit mass of that substance through by $1 ° C$ or $1 K$ .
S.I. unit is joule per kilogram per kelvin or $J k g^{- 1} K^{- 1}$ .

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